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7th FAMOS School and Meeting Agenda

Contents

Tuesday, October 24

Day 1: 2018 School for Young Scientists

VIDEOS OF PRESENTATIONS are available here. (These are videos: D1_1-D1_9)

Introductions: Mike Steele and Students/Postdocs

Petteri Uotila: Global ocean reanalysis for the Arctic

Pierre Rampal: Next-generation sea ice modeling

Pedro Duarte: Ice algae and models

Mark Payne: What are climate services?

Erik Kolstad: Co-production of seasonal forecasts: experiences from Norway

Cian Woods: Atmospheric rivers in the Arctic 

Peter Worcester: Ocean acoustics for Arctic research

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Day 2: FAMOS Meeting

VIDEOS OF PRESENTATIONS are available here. (These are videos: D2_1-D2_15)

  • Opening welcome from Dr. Lars Henrick Smedsrud on behalf of the Bjerknes Center, the University of Bergen, and Bergen City
  • Introduction and instructions for working groups: Andrey Proshutinsky and Mike Steele

SESSION 1: Sea ice observations, modeling, and predictions

David Hebert: High-resolution sea ice modeling during Year of Polar Prediction

Polona Itkin: Sea ice deformation: datasets across different temporal and spatial scales and its importance for the sea ice mass balance

Nils Hutter (presented by Amelie Bouchat): Comparing deformation features of sea ice models contributing to the FAMOS Sea-Ice Rheology Experiment

Veronique Dansereau: A new rheological framework for sea ice modeling

David Schroeder: Using CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness to improve sea ice evolution in the ocean – sea ice model NEMO-CICE

Longjiang Mu: Arctic-wide sea-ice thickness estimates from combining satellite remote sensing data and a dynamic ice-ocean model with data assimilation during the CryoSat-2 period

Jean-Francois Lemieux (presented by Camille Lique):  The impact of tides on simulated landfast ice in a pan-Arctic ice-ocean model

Wieslaw Maslowski: Sensitivity of the arctic sea ice to and its impact on the regional energy budget

Julienne Stroeve: Modulation of Sea Ice Melt Onset and Retreat in the Laptev Sea by the Timing of Snow Retreat in the West Siberian Plain

SESSION 2: Intercomparison projects

John Marshall: The Arctic Climate Response Function Project

Eiji Watanabe: Multi-model intercomparison of ice algal productivity on the Arctic sub-region scales

Petteri Uotila: Assessment of ten ocean reanalyses in the Arctic Ocean

Morven Muilwijk: An evaluation of the relationship between anomalous wind forcing, ocean heat transport and sea ice in a suite of Arctic model simulations

Jim Carton: Variability of Arctic Ocean stratification 1980-2016 in three recent ocean reanalyzes

Sam Cornish: Arctic Freshwater redistribution and export in coupled climate models: responses to changes in atmospheric circulation

One-slide 1-minute poster presentations

Poster Sessions

Sea Ice

Biogeochemistry

Climate Response Functions

Regional Processes, Hydrography, and Circulation

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Day 3: FAMOS Meeting

VIDEOS OF PRESENTATIONS are available here. (These are videos: D3_1-D3_15)

SESSION 3: Atlantic water

Lars Smedsrud: Atlantic Water heat transport variability in the 20th century Arctic Ocean

Anthony Bosse: Atlantic Water transformation along its poleward pathway across the Nordic Seas

Agnieszka Beszczynska-Moeller: Modifications of Atlantic inflow along its northern passage towards the Arctic Ocean on seasonal to inter-annual time scales

Sebastian Mensa: Atlantic Water pathways around Svalbard mapped using vessel-mounted current profilers

Andrew Hamilton: Propagation of subsurface Atlantic Water into the Canadian Arctic and its potential to trigger retreat of outlet glaciers

SESSION 4: Eddies, tides, and mixing: observations, descriptions, and modeling

Igor Kozlov: Satellite observations of eddies in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

Camille Lique: Can we detect subsurface eddies in the ice-covered Arctic from space?

Tom Rippeth: The contribution of the tide to mixing at intermediate depths in the Arctic Ocean

Nicole Shibley: The formation of double-diffusive Layers in the weakly turbulent Arctic Ocean

Melanie Chanona: Internal wave-driven mixing variability in the Beaufort Sea and straits of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from multi-year mooring data

Ilker Fer: Structure, mixing and variability of the Atlantic Water boundary current around Svalbard

SESSION 5: Stratification and heat release

Sigrid Lind: Importance of stratification in modelling shift towards a new Arctic

Maria Luneva: Evaluation of cascading water formation from NEMO-shelf model simulations.

Anais Bretones: Arctic stratification: modeling, stability, and evolution during abrupt changes in sea ice

Erica Rosenblum: Factors controlling seasonal mixed-layer freshening in the Canada Basin during 1975, 2006, and 2007

Madison Smith: Event-driven release of upper ocean heat in the autumn Canadian Arctic Ocean

SESSION 6: Global and regional modeling

Matthew Hecht: A Climate System Model Targeted for the Study of High Latitude Processes

Claudia Hinrichs: Simulating Arctic climate change and the impact on lower latitudes in high resolution (4.5 km in the Arctic) with AWI-CM

Justin Wettstein: Seasonal and Spatial Variability in the Fully-Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Surface Energy Budget: Climatology and Projections

Helen Langehaug: Assessing Artic Ocean heat content in global climate models

Vera Fofonova: Representation of the shelf areas in the global ocean model: key study, questions and perspectives

Friday, October 26, 2018

Day 4: FAMOS Meeting

VIDEOS OF PRESENTATIONS are available here. (These are videos: D4_1-D4_5)

SESSION 7: New and developing coordinated initiatives

Arild Sundfjord: The new CliC/CLIVAR Northern Oceans Regional Panel; scientific motivation, objectives and plans

Jim Thomson: Overview of Arctic Sea State and Boundary Layer Physics Program

Peter Worcester: The 2016–2017 deep-water Canada Basin Acoustic Propagation Experiment (CANAPE)

Hanne Sagen and Stein Sandven: Integrated Arctic Observing System (INTAROS) and the way towards a sustained integrated Arctic Observing System

Working group reports, plenary discussions and meeting adjournment

 

 

 

 

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