Workshop Schedule

Thursday, January 24, 2013

10:00-10:15Registration and coffee
10:15-10:20Opening Remarks and Practical Information

Session 1

Indian Ocean and Indonesian Throughflow
Chair: Toru Miyama
10:20-10:40
      Yukio Masumoto (RIGC, JAMSTEC)
Cooling processes in the Southeastern Tropical Indian Ocean during the initiation period of the 2006 IOD
10:40-11:00
      Kelvin Richards
      (IPRC, Univ. of Hawaii)
Upper ocean variability in the Indian Ocean: results from CINDY and high resolution modelling
11:00-11:20
      P.N. Vinayachandran
      (Indian Institute of Science)
Indian Ocean modeling using Regional Ocean Modeling System
11:20-11:40
      Motoki Nagura (APL, JAMSTEC)
Longitudinal biases in the Seychelles dome simulated by 35 ocean-atmosphere coupled general circulation Models
11:40-12:00
      Hailong Liu
      (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS)
Evaluation of Indonesian Throughflow in an eddy resolving OGCM

12:00-12:10Photo Session
12:10-13:30Lunch

Session 2

Tropics
Chair Masami Nonaka
13:30-13:50
      Jianping Gan
      (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Multi-scale coupled circulation and biogeochemistry modeling system in the China Seas
13:50-14:10
      Tandong Qu (IPRC, Univ. of Hawaii)
Variability of the South China Sea throughflow as seen from OFES
14:10-14:30
      Takuya Hasegawa (RIGC, JAMSTEC)
Oceanic and atmospheric variation related to New Guinea coastal upwelling in the Bismarck Sea before El Nino onset using high-resolution climate model
14:30-14:50
      Toru Miyama (RIGC, JAMSTEC)
Regional climate modeling study of wind variations over western Pacific warm pool before El Nino onsets
14:50-15:10
      Ingo Richter (RIGC, JAMSTEC)
Influence of the subtropics on equatorial Atlantic dynamics

15:10-15:40Coffee Break

Session 3

Atmospheric and Ocean Dynamics
Chair: Kevin Hamilton
15:40-16:00
      Nikolai Maximenko
      (IPRC, Univ. of Hawaii)
Migrating quasi-zonal jet-like structures in the ocean and in the OFES model solution
16:00-16:20
      Shin Kida (ESC, JAMSTEC)
The dynamics of the water mass exchange between the North Pacific and the Okhotsk Sea
16:20-16:40
      H. Annamalai (IPRC, Univ. of Hawaii)
Asian monsoon simulation in high-resolution climate models
16:40-17:00
      Akira Yamazaki (ESC, JAMSTEC)
On the maintenance of Euro-Russian blocking in summer of 2010

19:00-21:00Reception at the Kise Beach Palace

Friday, January 25, 2013

Session 4

Air-Sea Interaction
Chair: Kelvin Richards
9:00-9:20
      Niklas Schneider (IPRC, Univ. of Hawaii)
Air-sea interaction at a weak SST front
9:20-9:40
      Masami Nonaka (RIGC, JAMSTEC)
Potential predictability of interannual variability in the Kuroshio Extension jet speed in the North Pacific OFES
9:40-10:00
      Akira Kuwano-Yoshida (ESC, JAMSTEC)
Atmospheric response to the SST front in the northwestern Pacific region in an AGCM
10:00-10:20
      Bunmei Taguchi (ESC, JAMSTEC)
Multi-decadal modulation of North Pacific Decadal Variability

10:20-10:50Coffee Break

Session 5

Modeling and Assimilation I
Chair: Shin Kida
10:50-11:10
      Yongqiang Yu
      (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS)
A quasi-global 1/10° eddy-resolving ocean general circulation model and its preliminary results
11:10-11:30
      Hideharu Sasaki (ESC, JAMSTEC)
Submesoscales in a 1/30° North Pacific simulation
11:30-11:50
      Yoshikazu Sasai (RIGC, JAMSTEC)
Impacts of sub-mesoscale physics on the phytoplankton production in the Western North Pacific using OFES
11:50-12:10
      Daisuke Matsuoka (ESC, JAMSTEC)
Feature extraction and visualization for Ocean General Circulation Model via Multivariate Analysis

12:10-13:30Lunch

Session 6

Modeling and Assimilation II
Chair: Yukio Masumoto
13:30-13:50
      Hidenori Aiki (RIGC, JAMSTEC)
Investigation of momentum fluxes from wind to surface waves and ocean circulation using a coupled atmosphere ocean surface-wave model under tropical cyclone conditions
13:50-14:10
      Nobumasa Komori (ESC, JAMSTEC)
Development of an ensemble-based data assimilation system with a coupled atmosphere–ocean GCM
14:10-14:30
      Takeshi Enomoto (DPRI, Kyoto Univ.)
Three keys towards non-hydrostatic spectral atmospheric general circulation models

14:30-15:00Coffee Break

Discussion

Scientific Targets and Future Prospects of Simulation Research
Chair: Hideharu Sasaki
15:00-17:00

17:00 Closing Remarks