CLIVAR-relevant sessions at the 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting

The Ocean Science Meeting sessions are listed in the following categories: US CLIVAR-specific, Air-Sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Processes, Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems, Observing and Modeling, Polar Regions, and Other. The list of sessions is not intended to be exhaustive, but to help the community digest the collection of the hundreds of sessions and events. 

US CLIVAR-specific sessions

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Past, Present, and Future (#7809) 

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diversity in a Changing Climate (#7567)

From WOCE through CLIVAR to GO-SHIP: Results from Global Repeat Hydrographic Surveys (#9251)

Observing and Modeling the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the South Atlantic: Causes of variability and impacts on climate, weather, and ecosystems (#9214)

Representation of Physical Processes in Global Climate Models (#9299) 

US CLIVAR Session on Oceanic Heat Uptake, Earth's Energy Imbalance, and the Global Warming 'Hiatus' (#9478)

Updates, Advancements and Projections on the State of the Ocean Carbon Cycle (SOCC) - How the Ocean is "SOCC"ing  it to us! (#9525)

Town Halls, Events, and Workshops

South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC) VI Workshop (Sun., Feb. 21, 9:00AM-6:00PM)

CLIVAR - Climate and Ocean: The Next 10 Years of CLIVAR Science as Part of the World Climate Research Programme (Mon., Feb. 22, 12:45-1:45PM)

Teeing Up Transition: Crafting Recommendations for Ocean Science Priorities in a New Administration (Tues., Feb. 23, 12:45-1:45PM) 

Southern Ocean Town Hall: SOCCOM and Other Progress (Weds., Feb. 24, 12:45-1:45PM)

Air-Sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Processes 

Air-Sea Exchange Processes in Western Boundary Current Systems and Marginal Seas: Their Local and Remote Climatic Implications (#9462)

Computational Oceanography - New Knowledge, Capabilities and Challenges (#9951)

Impact of the Ocean on Forecasting the Earth System from Weather to Climate Scales (#8383)

Interactions between the Kuroshio and Asian marginal seas (#9273)

Linking the Ocean with the Atmosphere - Exploring the Importance of the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface and Near Surface Waters in Global Scale Processes (#9954)

Mode and Intermediate Waters: their contributions to Physical, Biological, Chemical, and Climate Processes (#9579)

Physical processes at the air-sea interface (#9953)

The Dynamics of the Air-Sea Interface: Application to Oceanic Mixing and Transports (#9452)

The Ocean Surface Boundary Layer: Physical Processes and Roles in Weather, Climate and Biogeochemistry (#9952)

Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions: from Weather to Climate (#7692)

Understanding Air-Sea Coupling in Tropical Cyclones for Improving Model Intensity Forecasts (#9461)

Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems

Advances in understanding biogeochemical processes in the coastal oceans: modeling, observations and predictions (#9545)

Applications of Climate Data Records for the benefit of ocean sciences, marine ecosystems, and coastal communities (#8178)

Coastal submesoscale processes: Physics, biogeochemistry, and their interactions (#9285)

Ecosystem responses to climate variability in eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems (#9360)

From monsoons to mixing: coupled ocean-atmosphere processes and biogeochemical response in the Indian Ocean (#7489)

How do the carbon pumps pump? Mechanisms of the solubility and biological pumps (#7590)

Physical and biogeochemical processes and the support of shelf sea primary productivity and carbon cycling (#9277)

Physical-biogeochemical coupling in oceanic eddies and fronts: from submeso- to mesoscale processes (#9339)

Observations of Climate Change and Marine Ecosystem Biodiversity (#9538)

Ocean Circulation and Biogeochemistry in a Water Mass Framework (#9337)

Pacific Ocean anomalies of 2014-2015: Consequences for Marine Ecosystems (#9540)

Observations & Modeling            

Advancing Discovery, Observation, and Process Studies Throughout the Ocean with Robotic Technologies (#9629)

Autonomous Observations of Coupled Physical-Biogeochemical Properties and Processes in the Open Ocean: From the Diel and Local Scales to Climate on the Global Scale (#9514)

Connecting Coastal Seas and Deep Oceans: Processes, Observing Systems, and Modeling (#9241)

Developments and Ocean Applications of Data Assimilation, Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analyses (#9520)

Evaluation, Design, and Optimization of Observing Systems using the Observing System Simulation Experiments framework (#8486) 

Mid-latitude Climate Dynamics and the Role of the Ocean (#9329)

Ocean heat and carbon uptake and storage: observations, mechanisms and feedbacks (#9279)

Ocean salinity and water cycle variability and change (#7882)

Progress in modeling seasonal to multi-decadal coastal change: A summary of the state of the art (#9447)

Regional and Thematic Innovation Supporting Global Sustained Ocean Observing (#9528)

Satellite-data based studies of heat and freshwater budgets and the air-sea interface:  From diurnal to decadal timescales (#9530) 

Surface Water Mass Formation based on Satellite Observations (#9450)

Towards a Subsurface Ocean Climate Record and Applications that Improve Understanding of Climate Variability and Change (#9327)

Polar Regions

Dynamics of the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice System in a Changing Climate (#7526)

Global teleconnections originating in the Southern Ocean on Decadal to Centennial Timescales (#9498)

Heat transport processes in the Arctic Ocean's Atlantic and Pacific water layers (#9311)

High Latitude Air-Sea-Ice Interactions  in a Changing Climate (#9352)

Ice-ocean interactions and circulation around the Antarctic margins (#9278)

Marginal Ice Zone Processes (#9503)

North Atlantic warming and its impact on the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic glaciers (#9607)

North meets South: an integrated perspective of high latitude ocean dynamics (#9475)

Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in the Southern Ocean: Observations, State Estimation and Modeling (#9260)

Predicting changes in the Arctic Sea Ice cover using coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean-wave modelling systems (#9313)

Other

Climate Trends, Hydrographic Variability, Circulation and Air-Land-Sea Interactions in the Marginal Seas of the North Atlantic (#7409)

From coasts to the open ocean: global modeling of land –ocean fluxes and feedbacks on the continental shelf (#9506)

Interactions between the open ocean and marginal/coastal seas in a changing climate (#9638)

Tools, Services and New Technology for Oceanographic Big Data (#9523)

Variability of ocean circulation in the tropical Indo-Pacific warm pool and its climatic and environmental impact (#7912)