Observing, Modeling, and Understanding the Circulation of the Arctic Ocean and Sub-Arctic Seas Workshop Agenda
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Note: All displayed times are in US Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7). |
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| 08:00 |
Workshop registration & light breakfast |
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| 08:30 | Virtual room open | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome, opening remarks, and workshop goals | Jamie Morison (UW) | |
| Session 1 | Moderator: Jamie Morison (UW) | ||
| 09:20 | Invited: What are the modes of variability in the upper Arctic Ocean Circulation and how are they related to changes in the atmosphere? The Cyclonic Mode | Jamie Morison (UW) | |
| 09:40 | Invited: The changing Beaufort Gyre | Mary-Louise Timmermans (Yale University) | |
| 10:00 |
Invited: How do changes in circulation in the Arctic Ocean and Sub-Arctic seas interact? |
Cecilia Peralta Ferriz (UW) | |
| 10:20 | Break | ||
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10:40 |
Invited: The Atlantic Water Layer in the Arctic | John Toole (WHOI)* | |
| 11:00 | Invited: Unraveling a hot mess of natural shifts, forced warming, and feedbacks | Jennifer A. Francis (Woodwell Climate Research Center)* | |
| 11:20 | Discussion | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| Session 2 | Moderator: Mary-Louise Timmermans (Yale University) | ||
| 13:00 | Large scale forcing of the Arctic sea level seasonality and implications for slope currents | Francesca Doglioni (Alfred Wegener Institute)* | |
| 13:20 | Recent upper Arctic Ocean warming expedited by summertime atmospheric processes | Mike Steele (UW) | |
| 13:40 | New high resolution trace metal measurements in the Bering Strait and their implications for tracking Pacific Water circulation in the Western Arctic | Laramie Jensen (UW) | |
| 14:00 | Discussion | ||
| 14:20 | Break | ||
| 14:30 | Breakout Session | ||
| 15:45 | In-Person Poster Session / Networking Event | ||
| 17:00 | End day 1 |
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| 07:30 |
Light breakfast |
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| 08:00 | Virtual room open | ||
| 08:30 |
Recap Day 1; Introduction to Day 2: Theme and goals of the day |
Jamie Morison (UW) | |
| Session 3 | Moderator: Jamie Morison (UW) | ||
| 08:50 | Invited: What are capabilities and gaps in ongoing and planned in-situ observational programs? | Ignatius Rigor (UW) | |
| 09:10 | Invited: Remote sensing capacity and potential | Ron Kwok (UW) | |
| 09:30 | Intraseasonal and interannual salinity variability in the Beaufort Gyre using observations and ocean model simulations | Subramanyam Bulusu (U of South Carolina) | |
| 09:50 | Discussion | ||
| 10:10 | Break | ||
| Session 4 | Moderator: Jamie Morison (UW) | ||
| 10:30 | Using Saildrone USVs to validate OSCAR surface currents in the western Arctic marginal seas | Nan-Hsun Chi (NOAA PMEL) | |
| 10:50 | The partitioning of kinetic energy in the Western Arctic Ocean | Sylvia Cole (WHOI)* | |
| 11:10 | Upper ocean energy dissipation and vertical mass fluxes from in-situ observations in the Eurasian and Makarov Basins, Arctic Ocean, in 2015 | Benjamin Rabe (Alfred Wegener Institute)* | |
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11:30 |
Discussion | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 | Lightning poster talks | ||
| 14:00 | Break | ||
| 14:30 | Breakout Session | ||
| 16:00 | End day 2 |
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| 07:30 |
Light breakfast |
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| 08:00 | Virtual room open | ||
| 08:30 |
Recap Day 2; Introduction to Day 3: Theme and goals of the day |
Jamie Morison (UW) | |
| Session 5 | Moderator: Dmitry Dukhovskoy | ||
| 08:50 | Invited: What do models and analysis of existing data tell us about modes of circulation? | Elizabeth Douglass (Naval Research Laboratory) | |
| 09:10 | Invited: Synthesis of historical observations through reanalysis | An Nguyen (UT at Austin)* | |
| 09:30 | Invited: Understanding Arctic Ocean changes with emerging modeling capabilities | Qiang Wang (Alfred Wegener Institute) | |
| 09:50 | Physical mechanisms of upper ocean mixing in the Arctic | Kat Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory) | |
| 10:10 | Discussion | ||
| 10:40 | Break | ||
| Session 6 | Moderator: Patrick Heimbach (UT at Austin) | ||
| 11:00 | Arctic Observing System Simulation Experiments within the Navy Global Ocean Forecasting System: Large-scale and mesoscale ocean circulation in high-resolution simulations | Dmitry Dukhovskoy (NOAA NCEI) | |
| 11:20 | Arctic Ocean circulation and water properties in an ultra-high resolution global model | Elizabeth Fine (UCSD/SIO) | |
| 11:40 | Plenary modeling discussion | Patrick Heimbach (UT at Austin) | |
| 12:00 | Discussion | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Breakout Session | ||
| 15:30 | End Day 3 |
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| 07:30 |
Light breakfast |
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| 08:00 | Virtual room open | ||
| 08:30 |
Recap Day 3; Introduction to Day 4: Theme and goals of the day |
Jamie Morison (UW) | |
| Session 7 | Moderator: Mary-Louise Timmermans (Yale University) | ||
| 09:00 | Formation and circulation of dense water from a two-year moored record in the northwestern Iceland Sea | Stefanie Semper (WHOI/University of Bergen) | |
| 09:20 | Variability in atmospheric circulation over the Bering Sea and its impact on air-sea heat fluxes | Emily Hayden (OSU) | |
| 09:40 | Ocean warming and Greenland ice loss: the case for sustained ocean observations on Greenland’s continental shelf | Mike Wood (Caltech/NASA JPL) | |
| 10:00 | Break | ||
| Session 8 | Moderator: Jamie Morison (UW) | ||
| 10:20 | Breakout Session 1 Report out | Breakout leads | |
| 10:40 | Breakout Session 2 Report out | Breakout leads | |
| 11:00 | Breakout Session 3 Report out | Breakout leads | |
| 11:20 | Perspective from the funding agencies | ||
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11:40 |
Final discussion and Wrap up | Jamie Morison (UW) | |
| 12:00 | Adjourn meeting |
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