16th Session of CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel Meeting

Saturday, February 10, 2018
Event City: 
Portland
USA
Event Attendance: 
By invitation
Event Contact: 
Jing Li
Event Description: 

16th Session of CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel Meeting

 
Time: 10 Febrary 2018
Venue: Boardroom (First floor), at Courtyard by Marriott Portland Convention Center Downtown (Add: 435 NE Wasco St Portland Oregon 97232 USA; Tel: +1 503-234-3200)
 
Agenda
 

Time

Agenda items

09:00

Opening: Review of the panel activities after ARP-15  (Sabrina and Walter)

09:30

Topic 1: Ocean-Atmosphere interaction in the Atlantic Ocean (Walter Robinson)

09:30

1.1 Atmospheric fieldwork going on in the Atlantic (Paquita Zuidema/Chris Fairall)
      a. On-going fieldwork in the southeast Atlantic (Paquita Zuidema)
      b. EUREC4A (Chris Fairall)

09:50

1.2 Oceanic contributions to strong rainfall variability/extreme events along the southwestern tropical Atlantic (Moacyr Araujor)

10:10

Break

10:30

1.3 Impact of Tropical Atlantic biases in climate predictions/projections (Noel Keenlyside)

10:50

1.4 The tropical Atlantic as a global climate driver (Jeff Knight)

11:20

Discussion

12:30

Working Lunch (to discuss the time, venue, preferred organization/format and possible topics for ARP-17)

 

 

14:00

Topic 2: Ocean Dynamics and gaps in observations (Sabrina Speich)

14:00

2.1 Key role of the Ocean Western Boundary Currents in shaping the Northern Hemisphere climate (Noel Keenlyside)

14:20

2.2 Eastern Upwelling Zone (Paquita Zuidema//Ryan Rykaczewski)

14:40

Discussion

15:30

Break

16:00

Topic 3: Information from ARP related programmes

16:00 3.1 Galway and Belem Accords and the Blue Growth (Atlantic) EC H2020 call (Sieglinde Gruber, EC DG Research) (http://www.atlanticresource.org/)

16:20

3.2 Update from 2017 OOPC meeting, AtlantOS, and OceanObs’19 (Sabrina Speich)

16:35

3.3 PIRATA-22 (Moacyr)

16:50

3.4 LabSea2020 (Brad de Young)

17:05 3.5 AMOC Workshop (Mike Patterson)

17:15

Discussion

17:40

Topic 4: Panel Business

 

4.1 TAOS Review (Sabrina Speich)

 

4.2 CLIVAR Exchanges on ‘Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Interaction with the Atmosphere’ (Walter Robinson)

 

4.3 ARP membership issue

 

4.4 Update on CLIVAR website

18:00

Adjourn

 
Participants
 
Name Affiliation Country
Sabrina Speich Laboratoire of Météorologie Dynamique, IPSL France
Walter Robinson North Carolina State University USA
Eric Chassignet Florida State University USA
Jeff Knight Met Office Hadley Centre UK
Moacyr Araujo Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Brazil
Noel Keenlyside University of Bergen Norway
Ruza Ivanovic University of Leeds UK
Brad De Young Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Canada
Paquita Zuidema UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI USA
Jing Li International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) China