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2011 U.S. CLIVAR Summit

19-21 July 2011 Woods Hole, MA

Logistics

Monday July 18, 2011

1900 Welcome and introductions to US CLIVAR (Lisa Goddard)

1930 General overview and suggested outcomes of the joint meeting with OCB on Tuesday (Mike Patterson)

2000 Panels to suggest ideas of common interests between OCB and their Panel

2100 Plenary discussion of potential ideas

Tuesday July 19, 2011 – Joint session with OCB
07:30-08:00 Continental Breakfast

08:00 OCB and US CLIVAR: A Joint Science Session Chairs: Ken Johnson (MBARI), Annalisa Bracco (Georgia Tech)

08:00 Meeting introduction, mutual goals, anticipated outcomes (Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Tech)

08:20 OCB and U.S. CLIVAR: Scientific questions and global observing capabilities (40 mins. talk) (Scott Doney, WHOI)

09:00 Joint OCB and U.S. CLIVAR science and observing objectives (45 mins. community discussion)

09:45 Break (posters)

10:15 Global modeling challenges (30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Mick Follows, MIT)

11:15 Impacts of overturn on ocean heat and carbon fluxes and ecosystem processes (30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Alison Macdonald, WHOI)

12:15 Lunch

13:45 Southern Ocean challenges: How do climate variability and climate change impact circulation, carbon uptake, and ecosystem processes? (30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Nicole Lovenduski, Univ. Colorado)

14:45 Coupled air-sea interaction, heat and gas exchange contributing to variability and trends in ocean biogeochemistry (e.g. carbon sources and oxygen minimum zones) (30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Curtis Deutsch, UCLA)

15:45 Break (posters)

16:15 Sub-daily to seasonal and sub-mesoscale to mesoscale processes and interaction with ocean biology (30 mins. talk, 30 mins. community discussion) (Amala Mahadevan, WHOI)

17:15 Wrap-up remarks

17:30 Poster session

18:30 Workshop dinner (Fenno lawn)

Wednesday July 20, 2011

0730 Refreshments

0800 Recap from Tuesday’s meeting (Mike Patterson)

0830 Discussion and updates on themes of Extremes and Polar Climate (panels report on progress)

0915 Working Group Reports
Decadal Predictability (Arun Kumar)
AMOC (Rong Zhang)
Greenland Ice Sheet (Patrick Heimbach)
Hurricanes WG (Suzana Camargo)

1045 IESA Recap – (Bosilovich)

1100 International CLIVAR – Bob Molinari

1130 US Agency Question and Answer session

1215 Goals of Summit and Charge to Panels (Mike Patterson)

1230 Lunch on your own

1215 Panel Breakouts

Thursday July 21, 2011

0730 Refreshments

0830 Panel Breakouts continue

1230 Lunch on your own

1330 Panel reporting in plenary
PPAI
PSMI
POS

1500 Wrap up and adjournment

Panel Agendas and presentations can be found at the links below.

(PPAI) (POS) (PSMI)

 

 

 

 

 

Announcements

U.S. CLIVAR Call for New Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR joint call with Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Group (OCB) for Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2011 presentations online

U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group publishes paper in BAMS (Feb. 2011, Vol. 92, No. 2)

NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium - 6-24 June 2011; Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under climate Change - presentations online

More Announcements

Science Tidbits    

26 September 2011: Seeking better answers to climate change, extreme weather

20 September 2011: Earth is losing Arctic sea ice: consequences could be global

17 August 2011: Study blames humans for half of recent Arctic ice melt

9 July 2011: Record south-central drought could continue into 2012, National Weather Service predicts

7 July 2011 - US Climate: The New Normal

10 June 2011 - NASA launches Aquarius

 

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