CLIVAR-related sessions in Ocean Science Meeting 2016 in New Orleans, USA are selected for your easy planning attending these sessions. These sessions come from six major topics: Town hall, Air-sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Processes, Biogeochemistry and Nutrients, Past, Present and Future Climate, Ocean Observing and Data Management and Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation. 
A CLIVAR Town Hall session, serving to inform about the new CLIVAR science plan and to provide a platform to hear and discuss your ideas on future science and implementation needs required to meet urgent climate research goals, will be held during the Meeting and was highlighted in the list below.

Town Hall

CLIVAR- Climate and Ocean - the next 10 years of CLIVAR science as part of the World Climate Research Programme
Annalisa Bracco1, Detlef Stammer2, Matthew Collins3, Shoshiro Minobe4 and Tony Lee5, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States(2)University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany(3)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom(4)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan(5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Time and Place: Monday, February 22, 2016 12:45 PM - 01:45 PM, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 225-227

A Proposed Alternative Measure for Climate Change Potential
Forrest A DeGroff, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States and Forrest A DeGroff, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

Diapycnal mixing in the ocean: Newly available data and parameterizations from the Climate Process Team
Amy Frances Waterhouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CA, United States, Stephen Matthew Griffies, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Jonathan D Nash, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States

Exploring Ocean Indicators: Coordinating Efforts to Better Study, Monitor, and Predict Ocean States, Changes, and Processes 
Jennifer Saleem Arrigo, NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Eric J Lindstrom, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Katy Hill, GCOS/GOOS/WCRP Ocean Observations Panel for Climate

GO-SHIP update of the current decadal (2012-2023) Hydrographic survey and activities
Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia, Richard H Wanninkhof, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States and Martin Kramp, JCOMMOPS, IOC-UNESCO, Brest, France

Implementing Basin scale in-situ Ocean Observing Systems (OOS): Enhancing the efficiency and overall information content of integrated OOS for the Atlantic (EU project AtlantOS), the Southern Ocean (SOOS, OOI, SOCCOM), the Pacific (TPOS2020), the pan-Arctic (SAON) and the Indic (IndOOS)
Jay Pearlman, J&FE, Seattle, WA, United States, Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Louise Newman, SOOS IPO, Hobart, Australia, Michael Wayne Patterson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert A Weller, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Albert S Fischer, UNESCO Paris, IOC, Paris Cedex 15, France and Roger Proctor, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

Launch of the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2)
Raleigh R Hood, Univ of Maryland, Cambridge, MD, United States, Edward R Urban, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, University of Delaware, Newarrk, DE, United States, Michael J McPhaden, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, Karen J. Heywood, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom and Rana A Fine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States

Ocean Sciences in the Sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)
John P Dunne¹, Gokhan Danabasoglu², James Conrad Orr³, Stephen Matthew Griffies¹, Peter J Gleckler⁴, Anastasia Romanou⁵ and Laurent Bopp³, (1)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States(2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States(3)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France(4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States(5)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States

Southern Ocean Town Hall:  SOCCOM and other progress
Roberta M Hotinski, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Jorge L Sarmiento, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Lynne D Talley, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Kenneth S Johnson, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Watsonville, CA, United States, Stephen Riser, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Heidi M Cullen, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States

Sustaining Ocean Observations to Understand Earth's Climate
Raymond W Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Carl I Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

Air-sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Processes

A001. Air-Sea Exchange Processes in Western Boundary Current Systems and Marginal Seas: Their Local and Remote Climatic Implications
Hisashi Nakamura, The University of Tokyo, RCAST, Tokyo, Japan, Dongxiao Zhang, University of Washington/PMEL NOAA, Seattle, WA, United States, Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Young-Oh Kwon, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States

A004. Impact of the Ocean on Forecasting the Earth System from Weather to Climate Scales
James G Richman, Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Eric Chassignet, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Stephen Matthew Griffies, NOAA Princeton, Princeton, NJ, United States and Ben P Kirtman, University of Miami - RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States

A006. Interactions between the Kuroshio and Asian marginal seas
Dongxiao Wang¹, Louis St Laurent², Huijie Xue³ and Lili Zeng¹, (1)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China(2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti, Woods Hole, MA, United States(3)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

A007. Linking the Ocean with the Atmosphere - Exploring the Importance of the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface and Near Surface Waters in Global Scale Processes
Michael Cunliffe, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth, United Kingdom, James Bird, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Anja Engel, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Oliver Wurl, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

A011. The Ocean Surface Boundary Layer: Physical Processes and Roles in Weather, Climate and Biogeochemistry
Daria J Halkides, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, Stephen E Belcher, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, Dimitris Menemenlis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

A012. Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interactions: from Weather to Climate
I-I Lin¹, Chunzai Wang², Karthik Balaguru³ and Gregory R Foltz², (1)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan(2)NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States(3)PNNL, Seattle, WA, United States

A013. Understanding Air-Sea Coupling in Tropical Cyclones for Improving Model Intensity Forecasts
George R Halliwell Jr, NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Hyun-Sook Sook Kim, NOAA/NCWCP, EMC, College Park, MD, United States and Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States

HE007. Ice-ocean interactions and circulation around the Antarctic margins
Andrew Stewart, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Andrew F Thompson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Pierre Dutrieux, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Karen M Assmann, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Biogeochemistry and Nutrients

B004. From WOCE through CLIVAR to GO-SHIP: Results from Global Repeat Hydrographic Surveys
Brendan R Carter, University of Washington, JISAO, Seattle, WA, United States, Alison M Macdonald, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Richard A Feely, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States and Toste S Tanhua, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

PO016. Mode and Intermediate Waters: their contributions to Physical, Biological, Chemical, and Climate Processes
Patrick A Rafter, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and James Holte, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States

PO021. Ocean Circulation and Biogeochemistry in a Water Mass Framework
Keith B Rodgers¹, Daniele Iudicone², Jan David Zika³ and Dafydd Gwyn Evans³, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States(2)Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy(3)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom

Past, Present and Future Climate

PC005. El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diversity in a Changing Climate
Antonietta Capotondi, NOAA Boulder, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael J McPhaden, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States and Andrew Thorne Wittenberg, NOAA Princeton, Princeton, NJ, United States

PC006. Global teleconnections and Southern Ocean Variability on Decadal to Centennial Timescales
Anna Cabre¹, Kyle Armour², Torge Martin³ and Irina Marinov¹, (1)University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States(2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States(3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

PC009. Mid-latitude Climate Dynamics and the Role of the Ocean
Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Noel S Keenlyside, Geophysical Institute Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Elisa Manzini, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States

PC010. Ocean heat and carbon uptake and storage: observations, mechanisms and feedbacks
Thomas L Froelicher, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Jaime B Palter, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Adele K Morrison, Princeton University, AOS Program, Princeton, NJ, United States and Sarah G Purkey, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States

PC012. Representation of Physical Processes in Global Climate Models
Caroline Ummenhofer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Aneesh C Subramanian, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Gokhan Danabasoglu, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and John P Krasting, NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States

PC013. US CLIVAR Session on Oceanic Heat Uptake, Earth's Energy Imbalance, and the Global Warming 'Hiatus'
Patrick Heimbach, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences & Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Xiao-Hai Yan, Univ Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Felix W Landerer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Aaron Donohoe, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

PO016. Mode and Intermediate Waters: their contributions to Physical, Biological, Chemical, and Climate Processes
Patrick A Rafter, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and James Holte, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Ocean Observing and Data Management

OD001. Autonomous Observations of Coupled Physical-Biogeochemical Properties and Processes in the Open Ocean: From the Diel and Local Scales to Climate on the Global Scale
Herve Claustre, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, Richard Stephen Lampitt, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom and Pierre Testor, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Climatologie, Paris, France

OD006. Regional and Thematic Innovation Supporting Global Sustained Ocean Observing
Albert S Fischer, UNESCO Paris, IOC, Paris Cedex 15, France, Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Anna Wahlin, University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden and Weidong Yu, First Inst Oceanography, Center for Ocean and Climate, Qingdao, China

OD008. Tools, Services and New Technology for Oceanographic Big Data
Edward M Armstrong¹, Stephen C Diggs², Jessica Hausman¹ and Kenneth S Casey³, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States(3)NOAA/NESDIS/NODC, Silver Spring, MD, United States

OD009. Towards a Subsurface Ocean Climate Record and Applications that Improve Understanding of Climate Variability and Change
Matthew D. Palmer, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, Catia M Domingues, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-operative Research Centre, Hobart, Australia, Tim Boyer, NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center, Washington, DC, United States and Toru Suzuki, Marine Information Research Center, Tokyo, Japan

Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation

EC007. Coastal submesoscale processes: Physics, biogeochemistry, and their interactions
Sung Yong Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Sciecne and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daejeon, South Korea and Hezi Gildor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

HE006. High Latitude Air-Sea-Ice Interactions  in a Changing Climate
Kent Moore, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Robert S Pickart, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, John J Cassano, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Robin D Muench, Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States

PO001. Advances in Coastal Ocean Modeling, Observations, and Prediction
Vassiliki Kourafalou, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Pierre J De Mey, Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France

PO003. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Past, Present, and Future
Mojib Latif, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Monika Rhein, MARUM, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Stuart A Cunningham, SAMS, Oban, United Kingdom and Gokhan Danabasoglu, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States

PO005. Climate Trends, Hydrographic Variability, Circulation and Air-Land-Sea Interactions in the Marginal Seas of the North Atlantic.
Igor Yashayaev, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, Oleg Saenko, Environment Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, Alexander E Yankovsky, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States and Barry A Klinger, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States

PO007. Connecting Coastal Seas and Deep Oceans: Processes, Observing Systems, and Modeling
John Wilkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Hobart, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Christopher A Edwards, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

PO008. Deep and abyssal ocean mixing: from small scale turbulence to the large scale MOC
Ali Mashayek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, James R Ledwell, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, James B Girton, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Glenn S Carter, Univ of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States

PO011. From monsoons to mixing: coupled ocean-atmosphere processes and biogeochemical response in the Indian Ocean
Amit Tandon, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, United States, Andrew Lucas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Debasis Sengupta, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and Raleigh R Hood, Univ of Maryland, Cambridge, MD, United States

PO012. Interactions between the open ocean and marginal/coastal seas in a changing climate
Lixin Wu¹, Xiaopei Lin¹ and Jiayan Yang², (1)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China(2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States

PO014. Lagrangian Perspectives on Ocean Circulation and Mixing
Lawrence J Pratt¹, Joseph H Lacasce² and Laura Slivinski¹, (1)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States(2)University of Oslo, Meteorology and Oceanography, Oslo, Norway

PO015. Mesoscale and submesoscale processes: Characterization, dynamics, and representation
Stephanie Waterman, University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Shane R Keating, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Ryo Furue, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Mehmet Ilicak, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway

PO016. Mode and Intermediate Waters: their contributions to Physical, Biological, Chemical, and Climate Processes
Patrick A Rafter, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and James Holte, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States

PO018. Observing and Modeling the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the South Atlantic: Causes of variability and impacts on climate, weather, and ecosystems
Maria Paz Chidichimo, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) / SHN, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rebecca Marie Hummels, Department of Physical Oceanography, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, Renellys C Perez, UM/CIMAS & NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States and Regina Rodrigues, UFSC Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

PO021. Ocean Circulation and Biogeochemistry in a Water Mass Framework
Keith B Rodgers¹, Daniele Iudicone², Jan David Zika³ and Dafydd Gwyn Evans³, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States(2)Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy(3)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom

PO022. Oceanic Energy Pathways: From the Global Circulation to the Sub-Mesoscale
Matthew W Hecht¹, Hussein Aluie², Juan A Saenz¹ and Malte Jansen³, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States(2)University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States(3)University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States

PO025. Satellite-data based studies of heat and freshwater budgets and the air-sea interface:  From diurnal to decadal timescales
LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States and Qiu Bo, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States

PO029. Variability of ocean circulation in the tropical Indo-Pacific warm pool and its climatic and environmental impact
Dongliang Yuan¹, Sprintall Janet², Christophe Maes³ and Fan Wang¹, (1)Institute of Oceanology, CAS, Qingdao, China(2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States(3)Institute of Research for Development, Brest, France

Full session list and program of Ocean Science Meeting can be found in the links below: