Workshop #11, October 25-27, 2006
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Framework Topics
The major goal of the 11th AOMIP workshop is to review its activities and findings for the last 5 years and to plan its major activities for the next 5-year period.
The major workshop themes include modeling problems and results of:
- Sea ice dynamics and thermodynamics;
- Water circulation with a focus on Atlantic and Pacific waters;
- Modeling of freshwater and heat content variability;
- Modeling of sea level variability.
Other topics to be discussed are:
- How to validate and calibrate models;
- How and where to improve models;
- Interactions and collaborations with global modeling teams and other MIPs;
- AOMIP major results and future studies.
Day 1 - October 25, 2006
8:15 Introduction (welcome, agenda and agenda corrections),
A. Proshutinsky
Section 1: Sea ice
8:20 - 8:45 Sea ice variability in IPCC 20th century simulations,
R. Gerdes
8:45 - 9:10 Arctic sea ice deformation,
R. Kwok
9:10 - 9:35 Modeling tidal and inertial variability in sea ice drift and deformation,
W. Hibler
9:35 - 10:00 Modeling and Analysis of Landfast Sea Ice,
D. Holland
10:00 -10:20 Coffee break
10:20 - 10:45 A new parameterization of ice thickness in leads and its impact
on AOMIP simulations in a global model,
M. Maqueda
10:45 - 11:10 Climatological spin-up of a global coupled sea-ice and ocean model,
Y. Lu, Z. Wang, and D. Wright
11:10 - 11:35 Optimization of arctic sea ice models using satellite data,
S. Laxon
11:35 - 12:00 Model estimations of the present and future ice conditions
in the Arctic Basin,
A. Makshtas
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00- 13:40 Discussion: Sea ice data for model validation
(R. Kwok, S. Laxon)
Section 2: Model forcing
13:40 - 14:05 AWI coarse resolution results under modified forcing,
C. Koberle
14:05 - 14:30 Intercomparison of NCEP reanalysis and drifting stations "North Pole"
data in application to thermodynamic sea ice model,
A. Makshtas et al.
14:30 - 14:50 Coffee break
14:50 - 16:15 A 100 year forcing dataset for the Arctic Ocean: results and
comparison with data,
F. Kauker
16:15 - 16:40 Discussion: AOMIP forcing for repeating 1948-present experiments
(C. Koberle, A. Makshtas, A. Proshitinsky)
16:40 - 17:20 Discussion: A 100-year coordinated model runs
(F. Kauker and M. Karcher)
17:20 - 19:20 Reception at Clark 507
Day 2 - October 26, 2006
Section 3: Fresh water
8:15 - 8:40 Modeling fresh water fluxes into and from the Arctic Ocean,
W. Maslowski
8:40 - 9:10 Discussion: Freshwater and heat flux experiments
(W. Maslowski and M. Steele)
9:10 - 9:40 Discussion: Pacific water circulation experiment
(W. Maslowski and A. Proshutinsky)
9:40 - 10:00 Coffee break
Section 4: Validation and improvements
10:00 - 10:25 Validation of simulated sea level in AOMIP models,
A. Proshutinsky et al.
10:25 - 11:00 Discussion: Model validation and model improvements
(R. Gerdes)
Section 5: Atlantic water
11:00 - 11:25 Updated results on factors influencing the Atlantic Water
circulation in the Arctic Ocean,
M. Karcher and F. Kauker
11:25 - 11:50 Greenland's Island Rule and the Arctic Ocean Circulation,
T. Joyce
11:50 - 12:15 Vertical mixing and its affect on Atlantic Water
circulation in the Arctic Ocean,
M. Steele
12:15 - 13:00 - Lunch
13:00 - 13:20 Live Access Server
(Tele-presentation from Steve Hankin)
13:20 - 13:45 Discussion: Model/climate sensitivity experiments
(M. Karcher, A. Proshutinsky)
Section 6: Regional and other problems
13:45 - 14:10 Variability of the Greenland Sea hydrography from observations
and model results,
S. Hakkinen
14:10 - 14:35 Modeling of the Chukchi Sea circulation,
M. Spall
14:35 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00 Special arctic series seminar:
"Arctic Ocean Models Intercomparison Project. Getting somewhere?"
G. Holloway
16:00 - 16:25 Reconstruction of the Kara Sea summer circulation employing
a variational data assimilation techniques,
G. Panteleev
16:25 -16:50 An unstructured grid, finite-volume Arctic Ocean model:
validation and on-going application,
C. Chen et al.
16:50 - 17:20 Ecosystem modeling within AOMIP,
F. Dupont
Day 3 - October 27, 2006
Section 7: AOMIP project
8:15 - 9:00 Discussion: Building an AOMIP scorecard
(G. Holloway)
9:00 - 9:45 Presentation and discussion:
Southern Ice-Ocean Model Intercomparison Project,
S. O'Farrel
9:45 - 10:30 Presentation and discussion:
LAS and model outputs
(D. Holland and M. Steele)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:00 AOMIP workshop #12
(D. Holland)
11:00 - 11:40 AOMIP plans for 2006/2007 and beyond
11:40 Final remarks
Participants
| NAME | INSTITUTE |
|---|---|
| CHEN, Changsheng | U. Massachusetts, Dartmouth |
| DUPONT, Fred | U. Laval, Canada |
| GERDES, Rudiger | Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany |
| HAKKINEN, Sirpa | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| HANKIN, Steve | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory |
| HIBLER, William | International Arctic Research Center |
| HOLLAND, David | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| HOLLOWAY, Greg | Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada |
| JIN, X. | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| JOYCE, T. | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| KARCHER, Michael | O.A.Sys., Germany |
| KAUKER, Frank | O.A.Sys., Germany |
| KOBERLE, Cornelia | Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany |
| KWOK, Ron | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| LAXON, Seymour | University College London, UK |
| LU, Youyu | Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada |
| MAKSHTAS, Alexander | Arctic and antarctic Research Institute, Russia |
| MAQUEDA, Miquel | Proudman, UK |
| MASLOWSKI, Wieslaw | Naval Postgraduate School |
| MILLER, Jim | Rutgers University |
| NIKOL'SKI, D. | International Arctic Research Center |
| O'FARRELL, Siobhan | CSIRO, Australia |
| PANTELEEV, G. | International Arctic Research Center |
| PROSHUTINSKY, Andrey | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| ? RYABCHENKO, V. | Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia |
| SPALL, Michael | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| STEELE, Michael | University of Washington |