2016 POS Panel Meeting
On July 18-20, 2016, the US CLIVAR POS Panel held a meeting in place of the annual Summit at the University of Washington in Seattle. The meeting was organized around a series of six topical sessions. The Panel organized their sessions to include presentations by Panel members or invited speakers who were local. The final agenda, list of sessions, and links to the presentations can be found below.
Session 1: Recent Climate Diagnostics
Samantha Stevenson - Status and impacts of 2015-2016 El Nino event
Art Miller - Blob Update: Pacific Anomalies Workshop Summary
Session 2: Climate Monitoring Status and Needs
Renellys Perez - Global Drifter Program status and future directions
Fred Bingham/Kyla Drushka - SPURS update and scientific results of Aquarius
Subra Bulusu - Scatterometer and salinity missions: Status and needs
Alison Macdonald - Status of GO-SHIP and framework for program review
Jamie Morison - Arctic monitoring status and needs
Kyla Drushka/Subra Bulusu - IIOE-2 update
Session 3: Climate Analysis Status and Needs
Art Miller - Update on the focus topics of the International Workshop on Coupled Data Assimilation
Bob Weller - NAS Sustaining ocean observations study, Phase I
Session 4: Understanding Climate Variations and Linkages
Kyle Armour - Coupled links between the tropics/ITCZ and AMOC
Session 5: Tech Topic Science Highlight
Steve Riser - New technologies for profiling floats and Deep Argo
Session 6: Workshops and Working Groups
Qiang Fu - Expansion of Hadley Cell WG update
Zoltan Szuts - Paleo-AMOC workshop highlights
Yolande Serra - IAS workshop summary and needs for monitoring