Contents
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
DAY 1: FAMOS SCHOOL
Introductions from Mike Steele and students/postdocs
Younjoo Lee: Arctic primary productivity
Hayley Dosser: Ocean mixing
Cecilia Peralta-Ferriz: Ocean circulation
Outreach #1: Yana Bebieva: tank demos
Outreach #2: WHOI Media Relations: “How to talk to the media”
Chris Polashenski: Ponds & floes
Ed Blanchard: Sea ice forecasting
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
DAY 2: FAMOS MEETING
SESSION 1: Sea ice highlights session
Proshutinsky, Andrey: Introduction (welcome, meeting major goals)
Steele, Mike: Instructions for working groups
Dukhovskoy, Dmitry: 2016 sea ice conditions and results of 2016 sea ice outlook
Ricker, Robert: Sea-ice thinning associated with 2016 record low in Arctic sea-ice maximum winter extent
Kamal, Samy: Seasonal prediction of sea ice extent using the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) with bias correction
Stroeve, Julienne: Lessons learned from 500 sea ice forecasts submitted to the Sea Ice
Panel discussion: Sea ice predictions. (J. Strove, D. Dukhovskoy, R. Allard, E. Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, S. Kamal, H. Goessling, Ed Blockley)
SESSION 2: Sea ice observations and modeling
Hunke, Elizabeth: Highlights from DOE’s high-latitude ocean and ice modeling teams
Weijer, Wilbert: HiLAT: A new project for integrative studies of the high-latitude climate systems.
Allard, Richard: Recent Improvements in the U.S. Navy’s Ice Modeling Using Blended CryoSat-2/SMOS Ice Thickness
Horvat, Christopher: Interactions between sea ice floe size, ocean eddies, and sea ice melting
Squire, Vernon: Recent developments in a phase-resolving model of wave ice interaction
Panel discussion: Sea ice modeling and observing (E. Hunke, F. Dupont, D. Hebert, D. Feltham, V. Ludwig, I. Onarheim, V. Squire)
Working group preparations
SESSION 3: Ecosystem and biogeochemical modeling
Steiner, Nadja: Progress in modelling biogeochemical process in the Arctic
Lee, Younjoo: Assessment of net primary production estimates using coupled physical-biogeomical/Earth System models in the Arctic Ocean
Feng, Zhixuan: Copepod biogeography in a changing Arctic environment
Panel discussion: Present and future challenges for biogeochemical modeling and observations with high resolution (N. Steiner, P. Duarte, M. Jin, Z. Feng, C. Ashjian)
Thursday, November 3, 2016
DAY 3: FAMOS MEETING
SESSION 4: Ocean modeling and observations #1
Informational, Proshutinsky
Kozlov Igor: Internal solitary waves and submesoscale eddies in the ice-free Arctic Ocean observed from space
Manucharyan, Georgy: The role of mesoscale eddies in the wind-driven Beaufort Gyre variability
Mensa, Jean: Submesoscale dynamics under sea ice
Cole, Sylvia: Horizontal stirring and eddy diffusivity in the Arctic Ocean from observations
Panel discussion: Small scale processes: eddies, internal waves and mixing (M. Timmermans, H. Dosser, M. Spall, I. Kozlov, G. Manucharyn, J. Toole, S. Cole)
SESSION 5: Ocean modeling and observations
Pemberton, Per: Arctic Ocean Water Mass Transformation in S-T Coordinates
Dukhovskoy, Dmitry: Progress report on Greenland Freshwater Experiments
Marshall, John: Climate Response Functions for the Arctic Ocean
Maslowski, Wieslaw: Modeling the Arctic at increasing spatio-temporal resolution: results and challenges
Panel discussion: Large scale and local processes (M. Steele, A. Nguyen, Y. Aksenov, D. Dukhovskoy, P. Pemberton, J. Marshall, W. Maslowski)
Friday, November 4, 2016
DAY 4: FAMOS MEETING
Thanks and miscellaneous
New to FAMOS –Overeem, Irina: The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System: opportunities for interaction
SESSION 6: Coordinated experiments and studies (M. Steele and A. Proshutinsky)
Tasks for session 6: Steele Mike
Working group reports and plenary discussions
Working Group Report 1: Sea Ice modeling and observations (E. Hunke, Anja Rosel, Richard Dewey, Mark Johnson)
Working Group Report 2: Sea ice prediction (A. Jahn et al.)
Working Group Report 3: Climate response functions (J. Marshall et al.)
Working Group Report 4: Greenland Freshwater (D. Dukhovskoy et al.)
Working Group Report 5: Biogeochemical modeling (N. Steiner et al.)
Working Group Report 6: General circulation (Y. Aksenov et al.)
Working Group Report 7: Regional scale oceanography (M. Janout et al.)
Working Group Report 8: Internal waves, mixing and eddies (M-L. Timmermans and H. Dosser)
Conference Wrap Up: FAMOS new website (A. Bouchat) and final thanks
