Mesoscale and Frontal-Scale Air-Sea Interactions Workshop Agenda
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| 07:00 |
Workshop registration & continental breakfast |
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| 08:15 | Welcome, opening remarks, and workshop goals | Larry O'Neill (OSU) & Hyodae Seo (WHOI) |
| Session 1: Boundary layer and surface heat, momentum, and gas flux responses | Moderator: Larry O'Neill (OSU) & Jim Edson (WHOI) | |
| 08:30 | A brief overview of the air-sea fluxes of heat, momentum, and gas tracers at oceanic mesoscales | Lucas Laurindo (U Miami) |
| 08:50 | The Gulf Stream Convergence Zone | Niklas Schneider (U Hawaii) |
| 09:05 | Multi-scale turbulence in the OSBL | Leah Johnson (U Washington) |
| 09:20 | Open discussion | |
| 09:40 | Break | |
| Session 2: Free-tropospheric, extratropical atmospheric circulation responses | Moderator: Hyodae Seo (WHOI) & Niklas Schneider (U Hawaii) | |
| 10:10 | An overview of climatic impacts of midlatitude ocean fronts and eddies | Hisashi Nakamura (U Tokyo)* |
| 10:30 | Diabatic effects in the evolution of cyclones and storm tracks along the western boundary currents | Thomas Spengler (U Bergen) |
| 10:45 | Impacts of mesoscale SST variability on rainfall variability | Xiaoqi Wang (Texas A&M U) |
| 11:00 | Open discussion | |
| 11:20 | Lightning poster talks | Virtual poster presenters* |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 3: Feedback of atmospheric responses onto the ocean | Moderator: Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown), Ivy Frenger (GEOMAR), & Hyodae Seo (WHOI) | |
| 13:00 | Modulation of ocean dynamics by (sub)mesoscale ocean-wave-atmosphere interactions: current knowledge and limitations | Lionel Renault (LEGOS/CNRS/IRD/CNES/Université de Toulouse) |
| 13:20 | Sub-mesoscale wind-front interactions: The combined impact of thermal and current feedback | Yue (Luna) Bai (Cal Tech) |
| 13:35 | Energy decay of coherent eddies: Estimating the impact of wind-current coupling from in situ observations and satellite altimetry | Thomas Meunier (WHOI) |
| 13:50 | Open discussion | |
| 14:10 | Break | |
| 14:30 | Poster session; Virtual participants view poster gallery | |
| 15:30 | Breakout session 1 | |
| 16:40 | End day 1 for virtual participants; Networking reception | |
| 19:00 | End day 1 |
| Time (MST) | Agenda | Presenter |
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Note: All displayed times are in US Mountain Standard Time (UTC -7). |
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| 07:00 |
Continental breakfast |
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| 08:00 | Synopsis of Day 1 discussion | Larry O'Neill (OSU) & Hyodae Seo (WHOI) |
| 08:15 | Reports from breakout leads | Breakout leads |
| 09:00 | Break | |
| Session 4: State of modeling capabilities |
Moderator: Justin Small (NCAR) & Mark Bourassa (FSU) |
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| 09:15 | Overview of coupled modelling: CMIP and higher resolution modelling | Helene Hewitt (UK Met Office)* |
| 09:35 | A data-driven approach for the submesoscale parameterization | Abigail Bodner (NYU) |
| 09:50 | More than a length scale: Air-sea interaction at submesoscale fronts | Jacob Wenegrat (U Maryland) |
| 10:05 | Open discussion | |
| 10:35 | Break | |
| 11:05 | Lightning poster talks | Virtual poster presenters* |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 5: State of observational capabilities | Moderator: Alison Cobb (UCSD/SIO) & Sarah Gille (UCSD/SIO) | |
| 13:00 | An armada of assets for air-sea interaction research | Jim Edson (WHOI) |
| 13:20 | Airborne observations of surface winds, waves and currents from meso to submesoscales | Luc Lenain (UCSD/SIO) |
| 13:35 | Mesoscale air-sea variability captured by uncrewed surface vehicles in the tropical Pacific |
Samantha Wills (U Washington / NOAA PMEL)* |
| 13:50 | Ocean adaptive sampling, scale-dependent vertical correlations, and adaptive assimilation | Joseph D'Addezio (NRL) |
| 14:05 | Open discussion | |
| 14:25 | Break | |
| 14:55 | Poster session; Virtual participants view poster gallery | |
| 15:55 | Breakout session 2 | |
| 17:00 | End day 2 |
| Time (MST) | Agenda | Presenter |
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Note: All displayed times are in US Mountain Standard Time (UTC -7). |
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| 07:00 |
Continental breakfast |
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| 08:00 | Reports from breakout 2 | |
| 08:15 | Synopsis of Day 2 discussion | Larry O'Neill (OSU) & Hyodae Seo (WHOI) |
| Session 6: Future strategies for observations and modeling | Moderator: Sarah Gille (UCSD/SIO) & Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown) | |
| 08:30 | What to do when we can’t have everything everywhere all at once | Bia Villas Bôas (Colorado School of Mines) |
| 08:50 | Butterfly: a satellite mission to transform our understanding of the contribution of air-sea fluxes to weather and climate | Aneesh Subramanian (U Colorado) |
| 09:05 | Discovering the impact of the ocean mesoscale on multi-centennial climate | Malcolm Roberts (UK Met Office)* |
| 09:20 | Open discussion | |
| 09:45 | Break | |
| 10:00 | Breakout session | |
| 11:10 | Reports from breakout 3 | |
| 11:30 | Next steps and final discussion | Larry O'Neill (OSU) & Hyodae Seo (WHOI) |
| 12:00 | Adjourn workshop |
*Virtual