Sixth WMO International Cloud Modeling Workshop
In final form 16 December 2005 ©2006 American Meteorological Society he sixth World Meteorological Organization (WMO) International Cloud Modeling Workshop was held in July 2004, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and cochaired by Daniela Jacob (MPI-M) and Wojciech Grabowski [National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)]. It extended to 20 years the long tradition of such meetings, starting in 1985 with the workshop in Irsee, Germany. Previous workshops were held in Toulouse, France (1988); Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1992); Clermont-Ferrand, France (1996); and Glenwood Springs, Colorado (2000). Because these workshops were rooted in the WMO’s weather modification activities, their emphasis has always been on the modeling of cloud microphysics and the interaction between cloud microphysics and cloud dynamics. About 60 scientists from Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Libya, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ukraine, and the United States participated in the workshop. (Interested readers are encouraged to visit the workshop Web page located at http://box.mmm.ucar.edu/events/ wmo_workshop04/. The Web page provides links to workshop cases, the workshop agenda, and most of the workshop-contributed papers.) Aside from a miniworkshop on convection parameterization, presentations and discussions focused on cases.