Southern Ocean Workshop – January 28th and 29th, 2013

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Monday 28th January

Morning

Dynamics of the Southern Ocean, its eddying and mixing processes

(moderated by John Marshall, MIT)

8:30am – 9:50am
(15 minute talks, 5 mins for questions)

Jim Ledwell (WHOI)
Mixing of a Tracer in the ACC

Kevin Speer (FSU)
Preliminary results from the DIMES float experiment

Joe LaCasce (Oslo)
Lagrangian dispersion in the DIMES experiment

Ross Tulloch (MIT)
Observed and Simulated Eddy Diffusivity Upstream of Drake Passage

9:50am to 10:10am
Coffee Break

10:10am to 11:30am

Randy Watts (URI)
Observed Eddy Heat Fluxes across the ACC in northern Drake Passage

Teresa Chereskin (Scripps)
Bottom pressure torque and the vorticity balance estimated from the
cDrake array in Drake Passage

George Nurser (Southampton)
The impact of small-scale topography on the dynamical balance of the ACC

Kurt Polzin (WHOI)
The role of internal waves in larger scale dynamics

11:30am to 12:30pm
Discussion with speakers as panel

12:30pm to 2.00pm

Lunch

Afternoon

Dynamics of the Southern Ocean, its eddying and mixing processes (contd)

(Moderated by Bill Dewar, FSU)

2:00pm to 3:20pm

Maxim Nikurashin (University of Tasmania)
Routes to energy dissipation for geostrophic eddies in the Southern Ocean

Alberto Naveira Garabato (Southampton)
From mesoscale eddies to small-scale turbulence

Trevor McDougall (ANSW)
Separating vertical from isopycnal mixing in the Southern Ocean

Raffael Ferrari (MIT)
Combining vertical and isopycnal mixing in the Southern Ocean

3:20pm to 3:40pm
Break

3:40pm to 5:00pm

Dirk Olbers (AWE)
IDEMIX: a global energetically consistent model of the wave-induced
diapycnal diffusivity

Andrew Thompson (Caltech)
Southern Ocean Storm Tracks

Ryan Abernathey (Scripps):
Equilibration of Southern Ocean Stratification with and without Topography

John Marshall (MIT)
Modulation of southern ocean overturning by topographic steering of the ACC.

5:00pm to 6:00pm
Discussion with speakers as panel

On the town

Tuesday 29th January 

Morning

How does the Southern Ocean and its ice field respond to changes in wind and buoyancy forcing?

(moderated by Jim McWilliams, UCLA)

8:30am to 9:50am
(15 minute talks, 5 mins for questions)

Lisan Yu (WHOI)
Change of the Southern Ocean winds as seen from satellite observations
since 1987

Peter Gent (UCAR)
Response of the Southern Ocean to large increases in zonal wind stress

David Marshall (Oxford)
On the relation between surface wind stress and Drake Passage transport

Andrew Stewart (Caltech)
Deep overturning sensitivity to easterly winds over the Antarctic
continental slope

9:50am to 10:10am
Break

10:10am to 11.30am

Malte Jansen (MIT)
Equilibration of turbulent jets

Noboru Nakamura (Chicago)
The Phillips two-layer model of baroclinic instability: an untold story

Carsten Eden (Hamburg)
Energetically consistent models of the Southern Ocean

Bob Hallberg (GFDL)
Resolution dependent eddy parameterizations

11:30am to 12:30pm
Discussion with speakers as panel

12:30pm to 2.00pm

Lunch

Afternoon

What role does the southern ocean play in modulating climate?

(moderated by Carl Wunsch, MIT)

2:00pm to 3:20pm

Lorenzo Polvani/Karen Smith  (Columbia)
Past and future Antarctic sea-ice trends and connections to ozone forcing.

David Ferreira (MIT)
Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the SH

Darryn Waugh (JHU)
Recent changes in ventilation of the southern oceans?

Mick Follows (MIT)
Some thoughts on the relationship of Southern Ocean dynamics and atmospheric CO2

3:20pm to 3:40pm
Break

3:40pm to 5:00pm

Chris Hughes (Proudman, Liverpool)
The southern ocean mode on inter-annual timescales

Arnaud Czaja (Imperial)
Air-sea fluxes in the Southern Hemisphere

Kyle Armour (MIT)
Delayed SO warming and climate change

Emily Shuckburgh (BAS)
Representation of the southern ocean in CMIP models

5:00pm to 6:00pm
Discussion with speakers as panel

End of meeting