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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
|
10:45 – 11:45 |
Plenary discussion |
|
11:45 – 12:30 |
Discussion group
summary; wrap up |
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