U.S. CLIVAR Summit

19-21 Woods Hole, MA

PSMI agenda

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 (1325-1800)

13:25 – 13:30                        Initial Remarks – Teixeira/Wood

13:30 – 14:15                        ‘Internal-Wave Mixing’ CPT: Presentation and Discussion –  Simmons

14:15 – 15:00                        ‘Sea Ice/Ocean Mixing’ CPT: Presentation and Discussion – Jin

15:00 – 15:45                        ‘Cloud Parameterization and Aerosols’ CPT: Presentation and Discussion – Wood

15:45 – 16:15                        Coffee Break

16:15 – 16:45                        ‘Stratocumulus to Cumulus Transition’ CPT: Presentation and Discussion – Teixeira

16:45 – 17:15                        A Proposal for a Southern Ocean Biogeochemical Observations and Modeling (SOBOM) Program – J. Sarmiento

17:15 – 18:15                        CPTs and Best Practices for Parameterization
General Discussion

Thursday, July 21, 2011 (0830-1200)

08:30 – 09:00                        VOCALS Review –Wood

09:00 – 09:30                        SPURS Review – Schmitt

09:30 – 10:00                        DYNAMO Review – Lawrence

10:00 – 10:15                        Atlantic Workshop Review – Wood

10:15 – 10:30                        Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:00                        DIMES Review – Beal

11:00 – 11:30                        SABLE Review – Wood

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

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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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