Tony Lee (Tong.Lee@jpl.nasa.gov) and
George Halliwell (George.Halliwell@noaa.gov), co-conveners
Monday, June 7, 2010 |
8:00 – 8:45 |
Continental Breakfast and registration |
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8:45 – 9:00 |
Welcome |
William Johns, U.S. AMOC Program
Chair;
Eric Lindstrom, NASA PO Program Manager |
Session 1: In-situ Observation Focus (Chair:
Bill Johns and Susan Lozier) |
9:00 – 9:15 |
Amy Bower |
Subpolar-to-Subtropical
Connections: Labrador
Sea Water Spreading Pathways (Continued) |
9:15 – 9:30 |
Beatriz Pena-Molino |
Recent changes in the circulation
and water mass structure of the Deep Western Boundary Current
southeast of Cape Cod |
9:30 – 9:45 |
William Smethie, Jr. |
129I Transport in the Deep Western
Boundary Current (DWBC) in the North Atlantic |
9:45 – 10:00 |
Peter Rhines |
Seaglider encounters with key
AMOC processes in the northern Atlantic/Nordic/Labrador seas |
10:00 – 10:15 |
Charles Eriksen |
North Atlantic Western Boundary
Current Structure Observed by Deepglider |
10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee and poster |
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10:45 – 11:15 |
Bill Johns |
(Invited) Progress
in characterizing AMOC structure and variability from observations |
11:15 – 11:30 |
Christopher Meinen |
Variability of the Deep Western
Boundary Current at 26.5N |
11:30 – 11:45 |
Zoltan Szuts |
Vertical-mode decomposition
as a dynamic description of the Atlantic meridional overturning
circulation |
11:45 – 12:00 |
Uwe Send |
Variability of the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation Observed at 16N |
12:00 – 12:15 |
Shane Elipot |
Meridional Transport estimates
from the Rapid WAVE array |
12:15 – 12:30 |
Dagmar Kieke |
Variability in the strength
of the subpolar gyre and the formation of deep water - Advances
and perspectives - |
12:30 – 2:00 |
Lunch and poster |
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Session 2: Coupled and Idealized Models (AMOC Mechanisms,
Predictability, and Climate Impacts) (Chair: Martha
Buckley) |
2:00 – 2:30 |
Thomas Delworth |
(Invited) Simulating
the AMOC, its climatic impacts, and its predictability in coupled
models |
2:30 – 2:45 |
Rym Msadek |
A coupled model-observation
comparison of the Atlantic heat transport associated with the
AMOC |
2:45 – 3:00 |
Rong Zhang |
Latitudinal Dependence of Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Variations |
3:00 – 3:15 |
Holger Pohlmann |
Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation Variability in Decadal Climate Prediction Systems |
3:15 – 3:30 |
Bohua Huang |
Influence of Subtropical Air-Sea
Interaction on the Multidecadal AMOC Variability in the NCEP
Climate Forecast System |
3:30 – 4:00 |
Coffee and poster |
Estoril
Room |
4:00 – 5:30 |
Discussion Groups |
Discuss theme 1 (characterize
AMOC variability and structure using observations) and theme
4 (Mechanisms and Predictability of AMOC) |
6:00 – 7:30 |
Poster Session and Reception |
Estoril Room. Cash
bar and substantial appetizers. |
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 |
7:45 – 8:15 |
Continental Breakfast |
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Session 2 (continued): Coupled and Idealized Models
(AMOC Mechanisms, Predictability, and Climate Impacts) (Chairs:
Rym Msadek and Rong Zhang) |
8:15 – 8:45 |
Gokhan Danabasoglu |
(Invited) AMOC
Variability Mechanisms, Their Robustness, and Impacts of Model
Configurations |
8:45 – 9:00 |
Martha Buckley |
Mechanisms of Decadal MOC Variability |
9:00 – 9:15 |
Terrence Joyce (presented
by Rong Zhang) |
On the path of the Gulf Stream
and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) |
9:15 – 9:30 |
Lesley Allison |
Rapid AMOC fluctuation events
in coupled climate models |
9:30 – 9:45 |
Zhengyu Liu (presented
by Feng He) |
Transient simulation of AMOC
and climate through the last deglaciation in CCSM3 |
9:45 – 10:00 |
Jon Robson |
Initialized climate predictions
of the mid 1990s rapid warming of the North Atlantic subpolar
gyre |
10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee and poster |
|
10:30 – 11:00 |
Yochanan Kushir |
(Invited) The
Role of AMOC Variability in Climate |
11:00 – 11:15 |
Mingfang Ting |
Atlantic Multidecadal Variability
and Its Climate Impacts in CMIP3 Models and Observations |
11:15 – 11:30 |
Alexey Fedorov |
A decadal oscillatory mode of
the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. |
11:30 – 11:45 |
Sang-Ki Lee |
Why does the Atlantic Thermohaline
Circulation oscillate on multidecadal timescales? |
11:45 – 12:00 |
Jiayan Yang |
Atmospheric forcing
of marginal-sea overflow (CANCELLED) |
12:00 – 12:15 |
Ross Tulloch |
Nonnormal thermohaline dynamics
in a hierarchy of models |
12:15 – 2:00 |
Lunch and poster |
|
Session 3: Ocean Modeling and Synthesis (Chair:
LuAnne Thompson) |
2:00 – 2:30 |
Carl Wunsch |
(Invited) Existing
and Potential North Atlantic Circulation Estimates |
2:30 – 2:45 |
Renellys Perez |
Design and testing of a monitoring
array of the MOC in the South Atlantic |
2:45 – 3:00 |
Tong Lee |
The relationship between meridional
volume and heat transports of AMOC: a comparison between observations
and ocean state estimation products |
3:00 – 3:15 |
Sirpa Hakkinen |
The upper limb of AMOC and wind
stress curl variability |
3:15 – 3:30 |
Igor Kamenkovich |
Role of the Southern Ocean in
controlling the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation |
3:30 – 4:00 |
Coffee and poster |
Estoril
Room |
4:00 – 5:30 |
Discussion Groups |
Discuss theme 2 (impact
of observations on constraining AMOC; model-based assessment
of observing systems) and theme 3 (Climate impact of AMOC) |
Wednesday, 9 June, 2010 |
7:45 – 8:15 |
Continental Breakfast |
|
Session 3 (continued): Ocean Modeling
and Synthesis (Chair: Tong Lee) |
8:15 – 8:30 |
LuAnne Thompson |
Estimates of the Ocean Heat
Budget in the North Atlantic from Three Models: the role of
ocean heat transport convergence |
8:30 – 8:45 |
Stefan Gary |
Exploring the subpolar to subtropical
export pathways of the deep limb of the AMOC with tracers and
simulated Lagrangian particles |
8:45 – 9:00 |
Shenfu Dong |
The Role of Inter-ocean exchanges
on Long-term Variability in the Northward Heat Transport in
the South Atlantic |
9:00 – 9:15 |
Erik Van Sebille |
Assessing Agulhas leakage |
9:15 – 9:30 |
Xaiobiao Xu |
Transport of Nordic Seas Overflow
Water in the Northernmost North Atlantic: Insights from Eddy-resolving
Simulations |
Session 4: Satellite Observations (Chair:
Will Hobbs) |
9:30 – 9:45 |
Josh Willis |
Can In-Situ Floats and Satellite
Altimeters Detect Long-Term Changes in Atlantic Ocean Overturning? |
9:45 – 10:00 |
C. K. Shum |
Potential Monitoring of Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation Evolution Using Contemporary
Satellite Observations |
10:00 – 10:15 |
Timothy Liu |
The Annual Cycle of Atlantic
Meridional Transport Observed from Space |
10:15 – 10:30 |
Xiao-Hai Yan |
Characteristic Features of DOC
in the Labrador Sea based on Multi-Sensor Measurements |
10:30 – 10:45 |
Coffee |
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10:45 – 11:45 |
Plenary discussion |
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11:45 – 12:30 |
Discussion group summary;
wrap up |
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