Workshop Schedule
Thursday October 2, 2014
- 08:30-09:00
- Registration
- 09:00-09:15
- Opening Remarks : Prof. Ryuichi Oka (Honourable President of the University of Aizu)
【Session 1】Severe Weather Forecasting
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)
【Session 2】Process Modeling and Visualization
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
【Session 3】Pacific Ocean I
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)
【Session 4】Pacific Ocean II
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)
Friday, October 3, 2014
【Session 5】Indian Ocean
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
【Session 6】Dynamics in Atmosphere and Ocean
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.
【Poster Session】
- 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