BRAMSNET Second Meeting

8-9 May, 2006

CPTEC/INPE - Cachoeira Paulista - SP - BRAZIL

During two days, the participants presented the main results obtained since the BRAMSNET First Meeting (2005, fourth quarter): Improvements for weather forecast, pollution studies, deforestation studies, climate studies were some of many issues argued in the meeting.

Some presentations were about the experience from BRAMS use in regional projects like hidrological studies, precipitation and floods forecast, pollutants dispersion. Some difficulties in BRAMS tunning were cited.

Special attention was given to BRAMS code dissemination. Some difficulties found in BRAMS installation, setup and running were pointed. As result, some directions to become the BRAMS more easy to install and run were defined. Some features as webpage services, documentation, tutorials, support were argued too.

At the final of the meeting, a Roadmap to BRAMS' future and the new features and improvements to BRAMS 4.0 Version were defined.

Participants:

The participants of the BRAMSNET Second Meeting.

Name	Institution
Rita de Cassia Marques Alves	CIRAM-EPAGRI
Alvaro Luiz Fazenda	CPTEC
Demerval Soares Moreira	CPTEC
Eduardo Hidenori Enari	CPTEC
Eduardo Rocha Rodriguez	CPTEC
Jairo Panetta	CPTEC
Karla Longo	CPTEC
Luiz Flávio Rodrigues	CPTEC
Maria Assunção Faus da Silva Dias	CPTEC
Paulo Yoshio Kubota	CPTEC
Roberto Pinto Souto	CPTEC
Saulo Freitas	CPTEC
Simone Shizue Tomita	CPTEC
Alexandre Costa	FUNCEME
Diego Souza	FURG
Edmilson Dias de Freitas	IAG/USP
Pedro Dias	IAG/USP
Francis Wagner Silva Correia	INPA
Theotônio Mendes Pauliqueves Júnior	INPA
Gustavo Guterres Ribeito	SIPAM/FURG
Jaci M. B. Saraiva	SIPAM/FURG
Enio P. Souza	UFCG
Mateus M. Santin	UFPel
David Garrara Coelho	UFRJ
Isimar Santos	UFRJ
Maria Gertrudes Alvarez Justi da Silva	UFRJ

Presentations:

Jairo Panetta (CPTEC) - Summary.

Enio P Souza (UFCG) - BRAMSNET and related projects in the UFCG.

David G Coelho (UFRJ) - Dificulties and suggestions.

Matheus M Santin (FURG) - Experience in RS.

Saulo Freitas, Karla Longo (CPTEC) - CATT-BRAMS.

Edmilson D Freitas (USP) - Recent Implementations and Current Work.

Pedro Dias (USP) - System of Models Comparison in the MASTER.

Alvaro L Fazenda (CPTEC) - BRAMS and CATT-BRAMS Code Maintence, Support and Dissemination.

Jairo Panetta (CPTEC) - BRAMS: Past, Present and Future.

Pedro Dias (USP) and Jairo Panetta (CPTEC) - BRAMS: Future (In 6th RAMS/BRAMS/OLAM Workshop - May 2006, Ubatuba/SP - BRASIL)

BRAMS Roadmap:

The main result of the BRAMSNET Second Meeting was the definition of a roadmap to BRAMS.

To the BRAMS 4.0 Version (late June - early July, 2006):

Update to the RAMS 6.0 Version;
Introduce CATT (CARMA radiation with keys to run in IA-32/SX-NEC);
Introduce TEB + Chemical;
Sequential Optimizations;
Microphysics optmized to SX-NEC;
Change the RAMSIN to a file in NAMELIST (Fortran 90) format;
Include a new partition grid scheme.

To the Future:

Grell super-parametrization training;
Simplified and elaborated ozone photochemistries; aerosols and cloud microphysics;
Dynamic vegetation (GEMTM and IBIS);
Improvements in SIB 2.5;
Improvements in the turbulence scheme;
Coupling a distributed hydrological model;
Physical Space Assimilation System (PSAS, short term);
Local Ensemble Kalman Filter (LEKF, longterm)
Make the BRAMS more easy to new users. Possibilities: to construct a full linux distribution with all the compilers and libraries needed to run the BRAMS, construct RPM packages for BRAMS installation.
Collaborative work to improve documentation.

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