Atmospheric Convection and Air-Sea Interactions over the Tropical Oceans Workshop Agenda
| Time | Agenda | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 17:30 to 20:30 |
Pre-Meeting Informal Mixer |
Boulder Beer Company |
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Theme: Integration between Atmospheric Convection and Air-Sea Interaction |
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| 07:30 |
Registration and light breakfast |
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| 08:30 |
Welcome and introductions - Samson Hagos and Mike Patterson |
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| 08:45 |
Session 1: Modeling |
Co-chairs: Hyodae Seo & Chidong Zhang | |
| 08:45 | Modeling ocean-atmosphere coupled feedbacks over the tropical oceans | Charlotte DeMott, Colorado State U | Download |
| 09:05 | Global and convective scale NWP coupled modelling to improve the representation of convection in the Tropics | Charline Marzin, UK Met Office | Download |
| 09:25 | Mixed-layer model assessment of SST driven boundary layer convergence and the Madden-Julian oscillation | Brandon Wolding, NOAA ESRL (UCAR Postdoc) | Download |
| 09:40 | Why do atmosphere-ocean interactions improve predictions of the Madden-Julian oscillation? | Nick Klingaman, U Reading | Download |
| 09:55 |
Discussion |
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| 10:10 |
Break |
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| 10:30 |
Session 2: Observations |
Co-chairs: Elizabeth Thompson & Greg Foltz | |
| 10:30 | Perspectives and unfinished results from field programs over the tropical Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans: GATE, TOGA-COARE, and DYNAMO | Robert Houze, U Washington | Download |
| 10:50 | Observations of air-sea interactions over the tropical oceans | Jim Edson, WHOI | Download |
| 11:10 | The role of the ocean mixed layer in air-sea interaction | Kyla Drushka, U Washington | Download |
| 11:25 | In-situ challenges of R/V Mirai to capture impacts of precipitating systems on the environments: Atmospheric diabatic heating / drying and oceanic near-surface stratification | Masaki Katsumata, JAMSTEC | Download |
| 11:40 | Tropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Obs Systems | Greg Foltz, Weiqing Han, and Meghan Cronin | Download |
| 12:10 |
Discussion |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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| 13:30 |
Poster Session 1 - 2nd Floor Atrium |
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| 15:00 |
Break |
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| 15:15 |
Breakout - Modeling |
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| 16:15 |
Break |
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| 16:30 |
Breakout - Observations |
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| 17:30 |
Networking Opportunity |
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| 19:00 |
End of Day 1 |
| Time | Agenda | Presenter | Presentation |
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Theme: Integration between Observations and Modeling |
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| 07:30 |
Light breakfast |
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| 08:30 |
Session 3: Atmospheric Convection |
Co-chairs: Samson Hagos & Sue Chen | |
| 08:30 | Convective observations over the tropical oceans | Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M | Download |
| 08:50 | The ups and downs of tropical updrafts and downdrafts | Sue van den Heever, Colorado State U | Download |
| 09:10 | Convective conversion efficiency – a link between tropical convection and anvil clouds | Ryan Li, Yale U | Download |
| 09:25 | Development and application of a high-resolution global MCS database using feature tracking on satellite data | Zhe Feng, PNNL | Download |
| 09:40 |
Discussion |
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| 10:00 |
Break |
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| 10:20 |
Session 4: Air-sea Interactions |
Co-chairs: Antonietta Capatondi & Kevin Reed | |
| 10:20 | Air-sea interactions over the tropical ocean and Earth system modeling: Progress, challenges, and ways forward | Shuyi Chen, U Washington | Download |
| 10:40 | Yoshida Jets, Diurnal Jets and Fresh Jets: Challenges for the Tropical Pacific Observing System | Meghan Cronin, NOAA PMEL | Download |
| 11:00 | Impact of ocean observation systems on ocean analyses and subseasonal forecasts | Aneesh Subramanian, U Colorado | Download |
| 11:15 | A partial coupling approach to isolate the roles of the atmosphere and ocean in coupled climate interactions | Yemi Garuba, PNNL | Download |
| 11:30 |
Discussion |
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| 12:00 |
Lunch |
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| 13:00 |
Poster Session 2 |
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| 14:30 |
Break |
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| 14:45 |
Breakout - Atmospheric Convection |
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| 15:45 |
Break |
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| 16:00 |
Breakout - Air-Sea Interactions |
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| 17:00 |
End of Day 2 |
| Time | Agenda | Presenter | Presentation |
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Theme: Summary |
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| 07:00 |
Early morning hike (optional) |
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| 07:30 |
Light breakfast |
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| 08:30 |
Session 5 - Recap from breakout sessions |
Co-chairs: Samson Hagos & Greg Foltz | |
| 08:30 |
Breakout 1 |
Download | |
| 09:00 |
Breakout 2 |
Download | |
| 09:30 |
Break |
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| 10:00 |
Breakout 3 |
Download | |
| 10:30 |
Breakout 4 |
Download | |
| 11:00 |
Final discussion/closing remarks |
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| 12:00 |
Adjourn |
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| 12:15 to 13:30 |
Science Organizing Committee meets/writing assignments |