The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR), a joint venture between CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, will hold its fourth annual workshop, from the 9th - 11th November 2010. The workshop, which will explore the ocean sciences, will be held at CSIRO Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research, Castray Esplanade, Hobart, Tasmania.

Dr Trevor McDougall is Chair of the Workshop Committee.

Key themes for the workshop are:

  • Ocean Modelling
  • Ocean Processes
  • Mesoscale Oceanography and Forecasting

Keynote Presenters:

A number of prominent scientists and experts from overseas, Australian research agencies and universities have been invited to give presentations

  • Full details of key presenters will be updated nearer to the event
Workshop Registration:
  • Registration information will be available shortly.

Workshop flyer:

You can download the latest workshop flyer here:

Guidelines:

Presenters, are requested to please follow the guidelines for the format of your extended abstract, and submit in electronic format to Andrew Hollis by the 15th October 2010 . the extended abstracts will be published in a workshop proceedings volume, and will also be made available online.

Registration:

For further information contact: Val Jemmeson +613-9669-4095 (V.Jemmeson@bom.gov.au)

 

 

 


 

Tuesday 9 November
Ocean Modelling

Welcome
9:00-9:10 ~ Dr Bruce Mapstone, Chief of CMAR
9:10-9.20 ~ Dr Tom Keenan, Director, CAWCR
Setting The Scene
Session 1 CHAIR : Richard Matear
9:20-10.00 ~ Keynote: Stephen Griffies, GFDL, USA ~"Ocean Climate Modelling at GFDL"
10:05-10.25 ~ Dietmar Dommenget, Monash University ~ "Oceans Role in Global Climate"
10:30 Coffee
Global Ocean Climate Modelling
11:00-11:40 ~ Keynote: Motohiko Tsugawa, JAMSTEC, Japan ~ "High resolution modelling with the Parallel Cubic Ocean Model"
11:45-12:05 ~ Simon Marsland, CSIRO ~ "AusCOM CORE"
 12:10-12:30 ~ Dave Bi, CSIRO ~ "ACCESS CMIP5/IPCC AR5"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Session 2 CHAIR : Simon Marsland
14:00-14:20 ~ Petteri Uotila, Monash Uni. ~ "Sea Ice"
14:25-14:45 ~ Ben Galton-Fenzi, ACE CRC ~ "Ice-shelf / Ocean Interaction"
 14:50-15:10 ~ Michael Bates, UNSW ~ "Deep Overflows"
15:15 Coffee
15:50-16:10 ~ Xiaobing Zhou, BoM ~ "ACCESS ENSO/Tropics/Mixing"
16:15-16:35 ~ Xuebin Zhang, CSIRO ~ "Sea level"
 16:40-17:00 ~ Richard Matear, CSIRO ~ "Ocean Biogeochemistry"
Session Chairs - Summary discussion
17:15 ICE BREAKER Sponsored by Oracle Corporation Australia

Wednesday 10 November
Ocean Processes

Session 3 CHAIR : Trevor McDougall
9:00-9.40 ~ Keynote: Charles Eriksen, Univ. Washington USA ~ "Gliders as observing tools"
9:45-10.05 ~ Ming Feng, CSIRO ~"Leeuwin Current - Dynamics, Variability & Impacts"
10:10-10.30 ~ Ken Ridgway, CSIRO "Ocean Variability and Future Observing Strategies"
10:30 Coffee
11:00-11:20 ~ Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO ~ "Deep Ocean Change
11:25-11:45 ~ Serguei Sokolov, CSIRO ~ "Southern Ocean Physics"
11:50-12:10 ~ Susan Wijffels, CSIRO ~ "Changes in salinity and the hydrological cycle"
12:10 - 13:40 Lunch
Session 4 CHAIR : Susan Wijffels
13:40-14:20 ~ Keynote: Andy Hogg, ANU ~ "Eddies and Climate"
14:25-14:45 ~ Wenju Cai, CSIRO ~ "Heat in the ocean models"
 14:50-15:10 ~ Helen Phillips, University of Tasmania ~ "Ocean Mixing in the ACC"
15:10 Coffee
15:40-16:20 ~ Keynote: Harry Hendon, BoM, "Tropical ocean processes"
16:25-16:45 ~ Trevor McDougall, CSIRO ~ "Tracer-Contour Inversion: pathway to global mixing fields?"
 16:50-17:10 ~ Oscar Alves, BoM ~ "The ocean and progress in seasonal forecasting"
Session Chairs - Summary discussion
19:00 WORKSHOP DINNER

Thursday 11 November
Mesoscale Oceanography and Forecasting

Session 5 CHAIR : Andreas Schiller
9:00-9.40 ~ Keynote Neville Smith, BoM ~ "GOOS and GODAE the early vision and reflections on unfinished business"
9:45-10.25 ~ Keynote Frank Bub, NAVOCEANO, USA ~ "NAVOCEANO operations"
10:30-10.50 ~ Gary Brassington ~ "Mesoscale ocean prediction - status and future directions "
10:50 Coffee
11:20-11:40 ~ Peter Oke ~ CSIRO "Ocean DA"
11:45-12:05 ~ Terry O'Kane, CSIRO ~ "Meoscale ensemble ocean prediction methods"
 12:10-12:30 ~ Justin Freeman ~ BoM "Coupled ocean-wave-atmosphere"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Session 6 CHAIR : Gary Brassington
14:00-14:40 ~ Keynote: Nikolai Maximenko, IPRC, Hawaii, USA ~ "Ocean striations"
14:45-15:05 ~ Prasanth Divakaran, BoM ~ "Mesoscale ocean dynamics"
 15:10-15:30 ~ Andy Taylor, BoM ~"Coastal sea level"
15:30 Coffee
16:00-16:20 ~ Tom Durrant, BoM ~ "Waves"
16:20-16:40 ~ Diana Greenslade ~ BoM "Tsunami"
 16:40-17:00 ~ Jim Gunson, CSIRO ~ "Littoral zone"
17:00 CLOSE - Tom Keenan, Director, CAWCR