2023 GLASS Meeting

Aug 15 - 17, 2023 | Hohenheim, Germany

Tuesday 15 August 2023 (Grüner Saal, 1st Floor)
09:00 09:30 Welcome, Introductions, Goals for the meeting Andreas Pyka1, Kirsten Findell, Anne Verhoef and Volker Wulfmeyer
09:30 10:30 GLAFO2 Volker Wulfmeyer
10:30 10:45 The Cabauw Atmospheric Research Station Arnoud Apituley
10:45 11:00
AM Break
 
11:00 12:00 SoilWat2 Yijian Zeng
12:00 12:20 LS4P: collaboration with GASS3 and GLASS (esp. SoilWat)  Anne Verhoef 
12:20 12:55 EvapoTranspiration Crosscut4 (with GHP) + LIAISE Anne Verhoef
12:55 14:00
Lunch
 
14:00 15:00 CLASP2 Meg Fowler
15:00 16:00 LoCo2 Kirsten Findell and Joe Santanello (Remote)
16:00   16:15
PM Break
 
16:15 16:35 New Member – Marina Hirota Marina Hirota
16:35 17:35 SIF-MIP2 Nick Parazoo (Remote)
19:00 Group Outing to Palace of Hohenheim and snacks Balkon Saal 1st Floor
Wednesday 16 August 2023 (Grüner Saal, 1st Floor)
09:00 09:10 Welcome – Recap day 1 Kirsten Findell and Anne Verhoef
09:10 10:10 PLUMBER2 and modelevaluation.org2 Gab Abramowitz (Remote)
10:10 10:40 GSWP3 and LS3MIP2 Hyungjun Kim (Remote)
10:40 11:00
AM Break
 
11:00 11:30 GLASS/GDAP5 collaborations Yunyan Zhang
11:30 12:00 Crosscut (with GHP) on groundwater  Laura Condon 
12:00 12:20 New Member – Vimal Mishra Vimal Mishra
12:20 13:30
Lunch
 
13:30 14:00 Irrigation Crosscut (with GHP) Tricia Lawston-Parker (Remote)
14:00 14:30 Crosscuts (with GHP) on Global Surface Water and Floods; other GHP items Josh Roundy (Remote)
14:30 15:00 ILAMB2 and the International Land Modeling Forum Dave Lawrence (Remote)
15:00 16:00 Tour of LAFO Field Site meeting point is in front of the Museumsflügel
17:00 Bus tour to dinner location for those who have signed up Meeting point bus stop: Heinrich-Pabst-Str.
Payment with credit card is possible at location
Thursday 17 August 2023 (Grüner Saal, 1st Floor)
09:00 09:10 Welcome – Recap day 2 Kirsten Findell and Anne Verhoef
09:10 09:55 Urban Processes Gert-Jan Steeneveld
09:55 10:40 Collaboration with Digital Earth high-res land initiative  Min-Hui Lo (Remote)
10:40 11:00
AM Break
 
11:00 11:15 Update from the Safe Landing Climates Water Working Group  Hyungjun Kim (Remote)
11:15 11:30 Update from Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change  Kirsten Findell
11:30 11:45 Update from ILEAPS Xianhong Meng
11:45 12:15 Plans for a new GABLS2 over LAFO (with GASS) John Edwards, Mike Ek, and Volker Wulfmeyer
12:15 12:30 Begin framing discussion about potential opportunities for GLASS presented by these other initiatives
12:30 14:00
Lunch
 
14:00 14:30 Geosystem influences on land-atmosphere coupling and how that reflects in inter-annual variability of coupling signals over Europe Lisa Jach 
14:30 15:15 Collaboration with Digital Earth urban initiative Gyorgy Zoltan Nagy (Remote)
15:15 15:30 Introduction and start panel discussion* Kirsten Findell and Anne Verhoef
15:30 15:45
PM Break
 
15:45 16:30 Panel discussion* All attendees
16:30 17:00 Any other business  
* Panel discussion topics:
– Growth areas e.g., policy-relevant land models, hydrology, vegetation, cryosphere, permafrost
– Ecosystem functioning, Agricultural management and crop yield, Bio-geoengineering
– Governing philosophy of GLASS activities
– Measuring the success of GLASS ventures

1 Andreas Pyka is the Vice President for International Affairs at the University of Hohenheim
2 Explanation of GLASS project acronyms can be found here.
3 For an overview of Global Atmospheric System Studies (GASS) Panel activities click here
4 For an overview of Global Hydroclimatology Panel Crosscutting activities click here
5 For an overview of GEWEX Data and Analysis Panel (GDAP) activities click here