Tuesday, May 1
08:30 – 18:00
Wednesday, May 2
08:30 – 17:00
Thursday, May 3
08:30 – 12:00
Poster Abstract Submission & Early Career Travel Support
March 5
Registration
April 18
The TPOS 2020 project is a broad community effort to rethink and redesign the next-generation sustained observing system in the tropical Pacific. Gaining full benefit from our diverse assemblage of in situ instruments, with increasing satellite capabilities, requires integration through data assimilation in process-realistic Earth system models.
The goal of the workshop is to foster the communication and collaboration among the observational, modeling, and data assimilation communities. Results of the workshop will identify feasible and fundable recommendations, including process studies, that would advance the development of model parameterizations and data assimilation techniques so the tropical Pacific observing system can meet the needs of monitoring, prediction, and research for the next decades.
Specifically, the workshop will:
The workshop will bring together the community of scientists involved in process studies, model improvement (including parameterization development), data assimilation, operational prediction, and the TPOS 2020 community (including leadership and observational experts). Meeting participation will be limited to about 80 participants selected through a brief online application process. Limited travel support is available for early career scientists. Abstracts can be submitted for poster presentations (note: an abstract is not required to attend the workshop). The Organizing Committee with review poster abstracts and early career travel support requests and make its decisions in March.
The workshop will focus the meeting's objectives with a day of invited synthesis talks on the present state of understanding and ideas for improvement. The remainder of the workshop will include integrated poster, discussion, and breakout sessions. This workshop is designed to stay highly targeted on (a) plans for TPOS 2020 to date, (b) model development needs and the role of observational guidance, and (c) data assimilation needs and input. Breakout sessions, which will be targeted discussions with minimal presentations, will increase intermixing amongst these different groups that do not normally have opportunities to interact all in one place. Attendees wishing to present a poster should submit an abstract through the application page.
A key outcome of the workshop is the interaction and information exchange that will help shape the TPOS 2020 effort. The organizing committee expects the workshop participants to provide input for new directions that will lead to improved monitoring and modeling of the TPOS system and its role in understanding Pacific variability.
Specific outputs from the proposed workshop will include:
Kris Karnauskas (U. Colorado, Boulder; Co-Chair)
Billy Kessler (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab; Co-Chair)
Craig Bishop (Naval Research Lab)
Meghan Cronin (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab)
Maria Flatau (Naval Research Lab)
Samson Hagos (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
Steve Penny (NOAA NCEP; U. Maryland)
Janet Sprintall (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Sam Stevenson (U. California, Santa Barabara)
Aneesh Subramanian (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Mike Patterson (US CLIVAR)
Jill Reisdorf (UCAR)
Kristan Uhlenbrock (US CLIVAR)