1. 6-month Plan: May-Oct 2013 RASM 5 th Workshop Seattle 04/13 red == high priority tasks

2. RASM 6-month plan #1 VIC: bare ice albedo (Joe) VIC ‘BART’: routing scheme to POP (Joe) VIC: update to 4.1.2 (Bart) VIC-GLC development & testing offline (Jeremy+Joe) VIC: diagnosis of the partitioning between sensible and latent heat fluxes over land (Bart) VIC-CN off-line for single point (Michael, Bart)

3. RASM 6-month plan #2 WRF: explore microphysics & radiation with two sets of boundary conditions; 5-yr runs to diagnose/fix cloud/radiation biases in RASM (Brandon, Shelley et al - WRF) Continue nudging studies (i.e. higher wavenumber, only top half of atmosphere) (Mimi) Consider possibilities of increasing model top (Brandon, Bill) Sensitivity of albedo fraction in WRF (Alice, Robert) Wind time series for sea ice (Mimi, Andrew) Circulation bias checks in WRF /bndry precip problem (Brandon, John)

4. RASM 6-month plan #3 Diagnose and fix sea ice velocity/drift problem (Andrew, Wieslaw) – Test CICE 5.0; coupling frequency (Andrew, Tony, Alice) Quantitatively analyze ensemble produces in RASM (Andrew, Bill, John, Wieslaw) - Run with different reanalyses (Brandon) POP/CICE work with WRF output as h-compset (Alice, Andrew, Robert) Iterate with VIC on freshwater input to POP (Robert, Joe, Tony, Wieslaw) Parameter space sensitivity in RASM & h/g-compset with CORE2 forcing (Robert, Wieslaw, Andrew) 1/48-deg POP/CICE & 10-km WRF grid into RASM (Wieslaw, Tony, Robert, Mimi. Alice)

5. RASM 6-month plan #4 (Jeremy) Enable subgridded SMB calculations, dynamic intra- elevation-band ice/ice-free area in RASM-VIC4.1.2 Enable run-off (solid+liquid) to RASM ocean Formulate reasonable spin-up technique for ~5m snowpack in RASM (so reanalysis period not dominated by snowpack spin-up) Formulate reasonable glacier spin-up technique (so reanalysis period not dominated by glacier spin-up) Evaluate VIC/CLM SMB from fully-coupled simulations against RGI (observed) hypsometries Compare RASM-VIC SMB/climate to RASM-CLM SMB/climate Stand-alone VIC4.1.2-GLC coupling

6. 6-month plan: #5 CFSR/GFS forcing for RASM and compare with ERA-I results (Brandon, Bill, Robert, Andrew, Wieslaw) Put together boundary layer budget from all models (Andrew, Bart, Brandon) New Restarts: Jan 1979, 1989, 1999 & Sep 1989 (from r35rb1a h- compset 2ica) (Robert) 2 ensemble members for ~30 years (Andrew, Mimi) WRF-stand alone CORDEX simulations (Justin, Shelley, John, Bill) Validation of CESM 1.1-RASM (Andrew, Tony, Wieslaw, Bart, Alice) Validation of Spirit port (Tony) RASM Users Guide, include WRF averaging part (Justin, Brandon) Steps toward GCM boundary cond’s (Brandon, Bill)

7. 6-month plan: #6 Science domain – development of curriculum modules (Bill R., Anna Carolina) – Design and development of delivery system – Research other agency educational materials – Formalize RASM as educational collaborative