The 7th OFES International Workshop

Workshop Schedule

08:30-09:00: Registration
09:00-09:15: Opening Remarks : Prof. Ryuichi Oka (Honourable President of the University of Aizu)

Chair:Yukio Masumoto

09:15-09:45: Takemasa Miyoshi (AICS, RIKEN) *Invited; “Big data assimilation” revolutionizing severe weather forecasting
09:45-10:05: Akira Yamazaki (APL, JAMSTEC); Winter snowfall events and atmospheric blocking over east region of Japan
10:05-10:25: Poster session I (Coffee, tea and pastry will be served)

Chair: Niklas Schneider

10:25-10:45: Teppei J. Yasunari (GESTAR/USRA, NASA/GSFC); Why do we need to consider snow-darkening effect in global models?
10:45-11:05: Shinichiro Kida (APL, JAMSTEC); A layered model approach for simulating high river discharge events from land to the ocean
11:05-11:25: Yumi Yamashita (CEIST, JAMSTEC); 3D visualization of characteristic flows in the ocean
11:25-13:00: Lunch/Photo session

Chair: Motoki Nagura

13:00-13:20: Ingo Richter (APL, JAMSTEC); On the erratic interaction between the equatorial Pacific and Atlantic
13:20-13:40: Tangdong Qu (IPRC, University of Hawaii); Downstream impacts of South Pacific Tropical Water
13:40-14:00: Masami Nonaka (APL, JAMSTEC); Cold SST anomalies to the south of Japan in recent years
14:00-14:20: Bunmei Taguchi (APL, JAMSTEC); Response of atmosphere-ocean system to latitudinal shifts of the North Pacific subarctic frontal zone: A basin-scale two-way feedback
14:20-14:40: Sachiko Yoshida (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution); Fukushima radionuclide tracer in the North Pacific, observation and modeling
14:40-15:00: Poster session II (Coffee, tea and local sweets will be served)

Chair: Hariharasubramanian Annamalai

15:00-15:20: Hyodae Seo (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution); Effect of eddy-wind interaction on Ekman pumping and eddy kinetic energy: A regional coupled modeling study for the California Current system
15:20-15:40: Hideharu Sasaki (APL, JAMSTEC); Impact of oceanic scale-interactions on the seasonal modulation of ocean dynamics in the Northwestern Pacific
15:40-16:00: Bo Qiu (University of Hawaii); Seasonal mesoscale and submesoscale eddy variability along the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent
16:00-16:20: Fumiaki Kobashi (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology); Intermittent displacement of the Kuroshio Extension front from the current axis revealed from simultaneous observations by three research vessels and OFES
16:20-16:40: Yoshikazu Sasai (RCGC, JAMSTEC); Response of phytoplankton to submesoscale dynamics in the western North Pacific Ocean
16:40-17:00: Akira Kuwano-Yoshida (APL, JAMSTEC); Influence of explosive cyclones on ocean in OGCMs
18:30-20:30: Reception (at downtown in Aizuwakamatsu)

Chair: Yoshikazu Sasai

9:00-9:20: Kelvin J. Richards (IPRC, University of Hawaii); mpact of salinity on ocean/atmosphere interactions in the tropical Indian Ocean
9:20-9:40: Motoki Nagura (APL, JAMSTEC); A wake due to the Maldives Islands in the eastward Wyrtki Jets
9:40-10:00: Iskhaq Iskandar (University of Sriwijaya); Equatorial oceanic waves and the evolution of 2007 positive Indian Ocean Dipole
10:00-10:20: Hariharasubramanian Annamalai (IPRC, University of Hawaii); Organization of Monsoon Precipitation
10:20-10:40: Coffee Break

Chair: Ingo Richter

10:40-11:00: Niklas Schneider (IPRC, University of Hawaii); Dynamics of lower tropospheric vertical velocity induced by sea surface temperature fronts
11:00-11:20: Oleg Melnichenko (IPRC, University of Hawaii); Eddy dynamics and energy conversion in the subtropical gyre
11:20-11:40: Hidenori Aiki (APL, JAMSTEC); How to diagnose the horizontal flux of mesoscale / Rossby eddy energy in the extension regions of western boundary currents?
11:40-12:00: Closing Remarks
12:00-18:00: Cultural Program sponsored by Center for Strategy of International Programs, University of Aizu; This program will introduce the participants to the rich historical and natural heritage of the Aizu region. It will start with a Guest Lecture by Mutsuhiro Ikeda, followed by lunch and excursion.

Satoshi Iizuka(NEID): Interannual SST variability in the vicinity of Subpolar front and its impact on winter precipitation
Saji Hameed(Univ. of Aizu): A reconfigurable vector instruction processor for accelerating a convection parametrization model on FPGAs
Michiya Hayashi(AORI, The University of Tokyo): Ocean temperature changes induced by westerly wind events in 2014
Shintaro Kawahara(CEIST, JAMSTEC): VDVGE: Volume Data Visualizer for Google Earth
Zhaojun Liu(Hokkaido University): Impact of a coastline-shape on sea-level distribution and change along the coast of Japan: A regional ocean model study
Toru Miyama(APL, JAMSTEC): Regional air-sea coupled modeling for climate study in Kuroshio/Oyashio region
Tomomichi Ogata(University of Tsukuba): Effect of high-resolution SST on 60km-AGCM simulated Baiu-Meiu
Tatsuo Suzuki(ICCPR, JAMSTEC): Decadal hindcasts of the Kuroshio extension using a climate model MROC4 with an eddy-permitting ocean model
Hitoshi Tamura(APL, JAMSTEC): Spectral form and source balance of short gravity waves