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6th FAMOS School and Meeting Agenda

Contents

Tuesday, October 24

Day 1: FAMOS School

Introductions from Mike Steele and students/postdocs

https://youtu.be/WYptigRtPGM

Ian Eisenmann: Analytic and simple models

https://youtu.be/XjLwWoWPBAg

Jiayan Yang: Complex models + simple geometry

https://youtu.be/3LaJGvz7V-0

Glen Liston: Snow models

https://youtu.be/BW8hXp3wk3s

Mike Steele:Intro to Geoengineering

https://youtu.be/_Ev7cQ4rpFY

Steve Desch:Geoengineering Arctic sea ice

https://youtu.be/-tR09HanfaY

Mike Spall:Models + eddies

https://youtu.be/Od2F9YnYy_c

Till Rasmussen:Regional coupled Arctic models

https://youtu.be/FFR6Y6mUORw

Wednesday, October 25

Day 2: FAMOS Meeting

Andrey Proshutinsky and Mike Steele: Introduction and instructions for working groups

https://youtu.be/k6x8zdnRf7o

SESSION 1:   Sea ice observations and modeling

Dmitry Dukhovskoy: 2017 sea ice conditions and results of 2016 sea ice outlook

https://youtu.be/I9tPZVvuEkI

Winners and Prizes 

https://youtu.be/G8byzRwbKz8

Axel Schweiger: SIDFEx: The Sea Ice Drift Forecast Experiment 

https://youtu.be/T4ipCk784Tk

Bruno Tremblay:The dependence of energy dissipation and sea-ice mechanical properties on spatial resolution in a viscous-plastic model 

https://youtu.be/MY5nP0NGpaU

Polona Itkin: Direct observations of atmosphere – sea ice – ocean interactions during Arctic winter and spring storms

https://youtu.be/I25up6nYWI4

Panel Discussion: Sea ice observing and modeling

https://youtu.be/7pnn48H_GzM

SESSION 2: Bio-geo-eco systems coordinated experiments 

Kate Lowry: Under-ice phytoplankton bloom dynamics controlled by spring convective mixing in refreezing leads of open water

https://youtu.be/d8alO0lQmvg

Giulia Castellani: Multi-decadal simulation of Arctic sea-ice algae: what can we learn from the past?

https://youtu.be/lD5xo_wyAUI

Meibing Jin: Effects of model resolution and vertical mixing on the ice-ocean physical and biogeochemical simulations in the Regional Arctic System Model (RAS)

https://youtu.be/poi0WTZohLA

Jens Terhaar: Anthropogenic carbon in the Arctic Ocean

https://youtu.be/N4y6jCfr8Jg

Amelie Bouchat: FAMOS collaboration and new FAMOS website organization and services

https://youtu.be/My8HLjqcBnA 

Panel Discussion: Bio-geo-eco system coordinated experiments

https://youtu.be/dYYhMXWjFGE

One-slide Poster Pesentations 

https://youtu.be/6JnXbz5Rpds

 

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Day 3: FAMOS Meeting

SESSION 3: Coordinated experiment: “Arctic climate response functions (CRF)”

John Marshall: CRF coordinated experiments: goals, tasks and first results 

https://youtu.be/GZSjA790UWU

Sam Cornish: Response of Arctic freshwater to a step change in atmospheric circulation across the CMIP5 ensemble

https://youtu.be/AfZGNH9Yf9w

Tamas Kovacs: Climate response functions of the joint freshwater budget of the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans to changes in external wind forcing in an otherwise fully coupled earth system model  

https://youtu.be/Evfi2zu0VOY

Lars H. Smedsrud: Simulating variability in the Fram Strait sea ice export and related Arctic sea ice response 

https://youtu.be/vxI6e3spHfY

Panel Discussion: CRFs 

https://youtu.be/QpO2z2RxXN8

Working Groups Reports

https://youtu.be/52baQD_CMXw

 

SESSION 4: Coordinated Experiments: Freshwater fluxes and Gyres

Dimitry Dukhovskoy: Freshwater pathways in the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic from numerical experiments with passive tracers

https://youtu.be/a_R07hJ_YYI

Torge Martin: Enhanced Greenland melting: Effect of mesoscale ocean dynamics on distribution, timing and impact 

https://youtu.be/aCHv2OboRKg

Paul Myers: Modelling Greenland icebergs: pathways and freshwater contribution 

https://youtu.be/d1MfKvXAo1w

Georgy Manucharyan: The influence of continental slopes on eddy and freshwater dynamics of the Beaufort Gyre 

https://youtu.be/StYKKCGrrZE

Panel Discussion: Arctic freshwater changes and their influence on climate change processes 

https://youtu.be/t2EqLt5uojE

 

SESSION 4: Coordinated Experiments: Mixing

An Nguyen: Investigation of Arctic Ocean mixing in an ocean-sea ice state estimation framework 

https://youtu.be/Ox460Ac5RX4

Melanie Chanona: Variability of internal wave-driven dissipation, diffusivity, and stratification in the Canadian Arctic Ocean 

https://youtu.be/cq6nn1CVYd8

Michael Spall: Ventilation of the halocline in the Canada Basin 

https://youtu.be/glfSYNUvBiU

Mary-Louise Timmermans: Causes and implications of a warming Canada Basin halocline

https://youtu.be/iQ3-QilV96U

Panel Discussion: Physical and numerical mixing problems and solutions

https://youtu.be/VGKQi4R-3aE

 

Friday, October 27, 2017

Day 4: FAMOS Meeting

Introduction

Thank You to Meeting Organizers

https://youtu.be/j12hqQDk0_g

New activity announcement 

Best poster winners (Please link to file 2017_FAMOS_Meeting/Day_4_meeting/poster-winners.pdf)

The winners are:

  1. Georgy Manucharyan (1st prize: full travel support to attend the 7th FAMOS meeting in 2018)
  2. Castro del la Guardia (2nd prize: 50% travel support to attend the 7th FAMOS meeting in 2018)
  3. Morven Muiwijk (3rd prize: 50% travel support to attend the 7th FAMOS meeting in 2018)

SESSION 5: New and developing coordinated initiatives

Maria Luneva: Cascading

https://youtu.be/1GKPoWpmK0g

Wieslaw Maslowki: Arctic coupled modeling

https://youtu.be/RHUKf1x8tKI

Alexey Fedorov: Arctic ice and AMOC

https://youtu.be/0aPUl8Dg0U0

Working group reports

Note: The working group reports are available at the famosarctic.com website

Sea ice: A. Schweiger

https://youtu.be/e8hzg2CISDk

CRFs: J. L. Smedsrud

https://youtu.be/WQi0HipYtkg

Bio-geo-eco: A. Holdsworth

https://youtu.be/IbkVhLsSWBg

Freshwater fluxes: D. Dukhovskoy

https://youtu.be/3Pq98CDkE5M

Upwelling: S. Kelly

https://youtu.be/CrH-E1p_8MA

Mixing and eddies:  M. Spall

https://youtu.be/2-457R_gyWg

 Meeting wrap Up: M. Steele

https://youtu.be/Zvio2BXGMO4

 

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