third Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes (I3RC) workshop
11 - 14 October 2005
Kiel, Germany
This INVITATION-ONLY workshop will take place partly in Kiel, Germany, and partly on board the vessel Color Fantasy sailing the scenic Kiel-Oslo-Kiel route.
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Scientific program
Similarly to the first two I3RC workshops held in Tucson, the workshop will include presentations and discussions about past and planned I3RC activities, and about numerical aspects of 3D radiative calculations. This time, however, the agenda has been expanded to also cover the theory and observations of 3D radiative effects and 3D cloud structures.
The following sessions are planned:
- Past and Future of I3RC (chaired by Tamás Várnai)
- Publicly available 3DRT codes (chaired by Bernhard Mayer)
- Structured cloud fields for RT (chaired by Victor Venema)
- Approximations (chaired by Anthony Davis)
- 3D Science: IPA vs. 3D (chaired by Andreas Macke)
- 3D effects seen from space, aircraft and ground observations (chaired by Lazaros Oreopoulos)
Each session includes 6-7 invited presentations, allowing ample time for discussions.
Introduction:
The "International Intercomparison of 3-Dimensional Radiation Codes", or I3RC, is an international project that compares the performance of 3D radiative transfer codes used in a variety of scientific applications in the atmospheric sciences.
I3RC participants come from more than 30 research groups based in several countries, and apply a variety of 3D transfer methods. The project is sponsored by the GEWEX Radiation Panel (GRP) and the International Radiation Commission (IRC), and has been jointly funded by the US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (DOE/ARM) and by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration Radiation Sciences Program (NASA/ RSP).
I3RC is intended to
- understand and document the errors and limits of 3D methods;
- provide “baseline” cases for future code development for 3D radiation;
- promote sharing and production of 3D radiation tools;
- derive guidelines for 3D radiation tool selection; and
- improve atmospheric science education in 3D radiative transfer.
For more details, see the I3RC website.
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