Report

Agenda
Pre-Meeting Reports
Participants
Logistics

Agenda (13 September 2010)

The meeting on Thursday afternoon will be located at the Center Green Auditorium, while on Friday and Saturday, the meeting will continue at the NCAR Mesa Lab. A shuttle bus service will take participants to the venues from the Boulder Marriott and Millennium hotels.

Thursday 23 September

CLIVAR SSG-17 Action Items And Membership Issues - G. Danabasoglu
CLIVAR SSG, Imperatives and WCRP Modeling - A. Pirani
WCRP Modeling Coordination Meeting, Paris 15-17 Nov 2010 - G. Danabasoglu

CORE presentations and discussions

CORE IAF Dataset Update and CORE-II NCAR Simulations - G. Danabasoglu
Summary Of NCAR Modeling Activities - G. Danabasoglu
Update On CORE-II at GFDL - S. Griffies
Developments In The NorESM Ocean Component - M. Bentsen
ACCESS Ocean And Sea Ice Model CORE Simulations - S. Marsland
Experience with CORE II IAF In JMA/MRI - H. Tsujino
CORE-II Related Activities AT IFM-GEOMAR - C. Boening
Forcing Ocean Models With The Compo et al. (2009) 20th Century Reanalyses Project And Exploring Partial Coupling Of Ocean-Ice Models (R. Gerdes)

Mean State And Variability In A Suite Of Forced Global Ocean-Ice Simulations: The Interannual Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE-II) - Atlas/Paper Outline (S. Griffies, All)

Joint meeting with the US CLIVAR Working Group on Decadal Predictability

Summary of the DPWG charge and activities (Solomon)
Summary of CORE interannual forcing data and experiments (Danabasoglu)
Ocean model related or other relevant metric details pertaining to decadal prediction (Goddard)

Goal: explore and discuss common interests and projects, e.g., decadal variability diagnostics, including in eddy-permitting models; role of CORE II IAF experiments.

Joint meeting with the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES) - see here for the full DIMES meeting agenda.

Current practices in ocean diapycnal modeling (including model sensitivities) (M. Jochum)
Comparing methods for computing K (R. Ferrari)
Modeling tracer transport in the DIMES region (E. Shuckburgh)
Current practices for (sub)mesoscale mixing at NCAR (G. Danabasoglu)
Current practices for (sub)mesoscale mixing at GFDL (S. Griffies)
Diagnosing eddy diffusivities from eddy-permitting models (B. Fox-Kemper or F. Bryan)

Discussion:

• How can DIMES results contribute to model development?
• In what form are DIMES findings needed to help modelers?
• How can modeling efforts contribute to DIMES data analysis?
• Is DIMES a candidate for a CPT effort?
• Are existing parameterizations of isopycnal mixing pertinent?
• What happens when interior diapycnal mixing is at the noise floor of the measurement systems---can models cope with such low mixing levels?
• If diapycnal mixing varies spatially, at the moment is it more useful to work towards mapping a climatology of these variations or identifying the mechanisms that make it vary?

Reports

Participants

WGOMD: Gokhan Danabasoglu, Helge Drange, Stephen Griffies, Claus Boening, Anne-Marie Treguier, Enrique Curchitser, Simon Marsland, Gurvan Madec, Hiroki Tsujino, Eric Chassignet, Anna Pirani

Invited Participants: Bill Large, Laurent Terray, Steve Yeager, Frank Bryan, Doug Smith, George Nurser, Mats Bentsen

Logistics

The meeting will be held at the NCAR Mesa Lab, Boulder, USA following the CLIVAR WGOMD-GSOP Workshop on Decadal Variability, Predictability and Predictions: Understanding the Role of the Ocean.

Hotel Reservations

WGOMD meeting participants will be shuttled from the Boulder Marriott Hotel and Millennium Harvest House Hotel to the NCAR Mesa Lab. Please see below details on how to make reservations.

Boulder Marriott Hotel
2660 Canyon Blvd.
Boulder, CO 80302
Guest Tel: 1-303-440-8877
Guest Fax: 1-303-440-3377
Guest reservations 1-888-238-2178

Room rate: $124 plus 10.25% tax per night

Please click here to make your hotel reservation. Once your lodging dates have been entered the group discounted rate of $124 will be applied.

Please mention GSOP when reserving to guarantee the group rate when calling. Cut off date for making hotel reservations is: Friday, August 20th. No breakfast is included in this rate.Check-in time is 4:00 p.m. Check-out is 12:00 Noon

Millennium Harvest House Hotel
1345 Twenty-Eighth Street
Boulder, CO 80302-6899
Guest Tel: 1-303-443-3850
Guest Fax: 1-303-443-1480

Click here for a registration form that can be faxed or emailed to the hotel. If you cannot call or fax the hotel to make your reservation you may email reisdorf@ucar.edu for assistance.

Direct Reservation Fax No.: Fax 303-442-3821
Toll-free Reservations: 800-545-6285 (North America)
Direct Reservation Phone: 303-443-3850

Room Rate: $124.00/night plus 10.25% tax per night

You must mention WGOMD-GSOP when reserving in order to get the contracted rate. Cut off date for making hotel reservations is Friday, August 20th. This rate includes full, hot breakfast buffet. Ask for your breakfast coupons when you check in. Breakfast coupons are also good at the grab and go coffee bar at the entrance to the café.

Check-in: 3:00 p.m. Check-out: 12:00 p.m.
There is a $75.00 Early Departure Fee for those who check out early without providing 24 hours' advance notice. Please verify your departure date at check-in.

Reservations must be canceled by 6:00 p.m. on the scheduled day of arrival to avoid a no-show charge.

The Millennium hotel has two courtesy vans that can take you to destinations within Boulder City Limits. Inquire at the front desk for information on the van service. Parking at the Millennium is plentiful and free.

Airport

Denver International Airport (DEN) is a 60-minute shuttle ride from Boulder. DIA is a hub for most major carriers and is also served by discount airlines Jet Blue, Frontier and Southwest.

Ground Transportation
Ground Transportation Boulder Super Shuttle (303-444-0808 or www.yellowtrans.com for information). The cost is approximately $27 one way, $52 round trip from DEN to Boulder. The Super Shuttle ticket counter is located on Level 5 of Denver International Airport, the same level as Baggage Claim. The Super Shuttle departs the Millennium Harvest House every 30 minutes past the hour from 4:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. you must make a reservation for your return trip to DEN, 303-227-0000 or 800-258-3826. The Super Shuttle can also pick you up directly from the Center Green Auditorium.

Taxi
Taxi service is available from DEN to Boulder. The cost is approximately $85 + tip.