CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate

Submitted by Jing Li on Thu, 2019-10-31 01:45
Sunday, August 14, 2022 to Saturday, August 20, 2022
Event City: 
Qingdao
China
Event Attendance: 
By registration
Event Contact: 
Jing Li
jing.li@clivar.org
Event Description: 

 

CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate

14-20 August 2022, Qingdao China & Online

Programme  | Logistic informaion | Archived Recordings (Day 1 Part 1, Part 2 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6)

A Survey (new!)

 

A joint CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on 'Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate' will be organised  in a hybrid format (onsite in FIO, Qingdao, China with online participation) at on 14-20 August 2022. The overview of this course is as follows:

Ocean macroturbulence comprises fronts, eddies, and currents on the ocean meso- and submeso-scales (1-300km). These features are ubiquitous in the world ocean, as revealed by observations and models now available at ever greater spatial resolutions. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that motions on these scales play fundamental roles in Earth’s climate system: by transporting heat, momentum, and nutrients within the ocean, by influencing air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and carbon, and by shaping marine ecosystems.

Leading experts in ocean macroturbulence will address the following topics:

  • Observations: How are remote and in situ observations made on these scales, what new technologies (e.g. autonomous vehicles) are becoming available, and what are the challenges in analyzing and interpreting these data?
  • Dynamics: What are the dynamical mechanisms that produce meso- and sub-mesoscale motions? How do they interact with larger-scale circulations?
  • Modeling: How are meso- and submeso-scale motions represented in numerical models? What are the computational challenges to simulating these scales?
  • Role in climate: How do meso- and submeso-scale motions influence air-sea interactions and fluxes of energy and nutrients between the near-surface and deeper ocean? How do they shape marine ecosystems? What is the importance of ocean macroturbulence for simulating and projecting climate change?

Activities will comprise lectures, problem-solving, and discussions of recent journal articles; instructors will provide observational and model data sets for groups of participants to analyze. Groups of students will develop and present proposals for new research.

Who should participate?
This Summer School is intended for anyone who works in climate research or applications that are influenced by the marine environment. If you are (or are training to be) a climate or oceanographic researcher, a weather or marine forecaster, or a resource manager, interested in investigating when, where, and how ocean macroturbulences matter for your work, please register to participate.
 
Outcomes: participants completing this School will be able to:
• describe the distribution of eddying motions in the world’s oceans and how such motions affect the distributions of ocean properties: heat, salinity, nutrients, and biota, and thus play a role in the earth's climate
• explain the dynamical sources of ocean mesoscale and submesoscale motions and describe how these motions modulate air-sea interactions.
• evaluate how the absence of ocean eddies from most global models (such as IPCC-class climate models and global coupled forecasting systems) impacts the accuracy and usefulness of these models for the participant’s particular areas of interest, be they in climate research or applications.
• anticipate the value of eddy permitting and resolving models and data sets for the participant’s area of interest or application and formulate plans to use such data and output in their future work.
 

Meanwhile, a training course organised by UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate (ODC) on 'Prediction and Projection of Climate​', which was originally scheduled back to back with the CLIVAR-FIO Summer School, is now scheduled on 22-27 August 2022 (onsite in FIO, Qingdao, China and with online participation) .

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Date and Venue

  • CLIVAR-FIO Joint Summer School on ‘Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate’: 14-20 August 2022 (onsite in Qingdao, China, with online participation)
  • UNESCO/IOC ODC Training Course on 'Prediction and Projection of Climate': 22-27 August 2022 (onsite in Qingdao with online participation)

We encourage you to apply to both courses. More information can be found on the website of CLIVAR (www.clivar.org) or the ODC Center at (http://odc.fio.com.cn/).  

Logistics

Please check the logistic arrangement of the Summer School here.

Working Language

The training course will be conducted in English.
 
Trainees
 
The summer school is intended for early career scientists with research interests in ocean and climate. The applicants must have a good command of English. 
The full participant list can be checked here. 
 
Programme 
 
The preliminary programme for the Summer School is available via https://www.clivar.org/2022-clivar-fio-summer-school-programme
 
Faculty 
 

Dr. Walter Robinson (Director of the Summer School)

Affiliation: North Carolina State University, USA 
Research interest: large-scale dynamics of Earth’s atmosphere in the context of a changing climate
Current projects: How the extra-tropical storm tracks will change with global warming; The dynamics of atmospheric “blocking” and how it, too, may change with climate
Website: https://meas.sciences.ncsu.edu/people/warobin3/

 

Dr. Fangli Qiao  (Director of the Summer School)

Affiliation: First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China
Research interests: ocean mixing and air-sea interaction, the development of new ocean circulation models and climate models by including surface waves, and marine ecosystem dynamics
Academic Awards: the Wooster Awards of North Pacific Marine Science Organization and Outstanding Scientist of IOC/Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific in 2014; the New Century Talents National Candidate in 2007; the Ninth China Youth Science and Technology Prize in 2006
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fang-Li_Qiao

Dr. Annalisa Bracco

Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Research interest: Ocean mesoscale dynamics: Coherent structures and their role in setting transport and mixing properties of passive (for example floats) and active (i.e plankton) tracers. Vertical mixing at the mesoscales; Climate variability and the role of the oceans at interannual and decadal scales
Website: https://eas.gatech.edu/people/bracco-dr-annalisa

Dr. Alice Della Penna

Affiliation: University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau, New Zealand
Research interest: understanding how marine organisms (from phytoplankton to top predators) respond to the dynamic and heterogeneous environment of the open ocean
Publications: Global satellite-observed daily vertical migrations of ocean animals; Vertical Motions and Their Effects on a Biogeochemical Tracer in a Cyclonic Structure Finely Observed in the Ligurian Sea; Mesoscale eddies influence the movements of mature female white sharks in the Gulf Stream and Sargasso Sea
Website: https://www.apl.washington.edu/people/profile.php?last_name=Della+Penna&first_name=Alice


Dr. Changming Dong

Affiliation: Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China
Research Interest: physical oceanography, oceanic numerical modeling study and regional climate changes. 
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Changming_Dong2 

Dr. Gwyn Evans 

Affiliation: UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC), UK
Research interest: dynamics of the ocean on a range of spatial and temporal scales, and in particular the roles of diabatic and adiabatic process in driving the global overturning circulation using water mass transformation frameworks in observational- and model-based data.
Website: https://dgwynevans.com/

Dr. Ivy Frenger

Affiliation: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
Research interest:  understanding of the climate system and its response to anthropogenic forcing: (i) characteristics and effects of ocean mesoscale eddies, (ii) oceanic biophysical and ocean-atmosphere interactions, (iii) the Southern Ocean in a changing climate and (iv) the ocean carbon cycle. My research is based on ocean models, satellite and in situ data.
Website: https://www.geomar.de/en/ifrenger

Dr. Suneil Iyer (ECR)

Affiliation: School of Oceanography, College of the Environment, University of Washington, USA
Url: https://apl.uw.edu/SuneilIyer

Dr. Hailong Liu

Affiliation: Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chineses  Academy of Sciences (IAP-CAS), China
Research interest: To develop and apply global eddy-resolving ocean model
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hailong-Liu-8


Dr. Xiaohui Ma

Affiliation: Ocean University of China, China
Research interest: Meso- and small-meso scale air-sea interaction in the western boundary current regions, and their impact on the large-scale oceanic and atmospheric circulation

Dr Adrien Martin

Affiliation: National Oceanography Center (NOC), UK
Research interests: 1) remote sensing Doppler oceanography for direct measurements of ocean surface current, wind and waves with Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR, European Space Agency (ESA) airborne OSCAR system and the Seastar mission concept candidates for ESA Earth Explorer; 2) Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) from L-band radiometers like SMOS, Aquarius and SMAP satellite missions  
Website: https://noc.ac.uk/n/Adrien+Martin

Dr. Zhenya Song

Affiliation: First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), MNR, China
Research interest: Climate model development and applications, climate change, tropical air-sea interaction, high-performance computing, and machine learning.
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhenya-Song

Dr. Sabrina Speich

Affiliation: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, IPSL, ENS-PSL, France
Research interest: Her research focuses on scale-interactions and atmosphere-ocean dynamics, and how they affect the Earth climate and marine ecosystems under global warming. She is a world-recognized expert in ocean modeling as well as in organizing wide programs of in situ observations.
Website: https://www.lmd.ens.fr/speich/

Dr. Dongxiao Wang

Affiliation: School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Research interest: Ocean dynamics and air-sea interaction
Website: https://marine.sysu.edu.cn/teacher/4853

 

Application (closed)

​http://odc.fio.com.cn/Register/        Deadline: 30 April 2022 , 24:00 GMT+8

Applications that were received already will still be evaluated and there will be another round of accepting applications after the new date has been announced.

In case you had difficulty in accessing the online system, please send the Registration Form by email to both Dr Jose Santos (icpo@clivar.org) and Dr Xunqiang Yin (odc_center@fio.org.cn) by 30 April 2022, 24:00 GMT+8.

Grants (closed)
 
A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. A selection committee will be set-up with a view to selecting the most qualified early career scientists among applications to receive financial assistance. You will be asked to identify your financial request in the registration system. The information filled in the application will be of great help for the selection process.
 
Contact Information
 

Dr. Jose Santos
Executive Director 
International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO)
Email: icpo@clivar.org 

Dr Xunqiang Yin
UNESCO/IOC RTRC-ODC center
The First Institute of Oceanography, MNR, China
E-mail: odc_center@fio.org.cn