WGOMD

WGCM/CLIVAR WORKING GROUP ON OCEAN MODEL DEVELOPMENT

WGOMD-GSOP Workshop on Decadal Variability, Predictability, and Prediction: Understanding the Role of the Ocean

Organizing Committee 

Gokhan Danabasoglu (co-chair): National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

Helge Drange (co-chair): University of Bergen, Norway

Detlef Stammer (co-chair): Institut für Meereskunde, Hamburg, Germany

Bernadette Sloyan (co-chair): CSIRO, Marine Research, Hobart, Australia

Anna Pirani: CLIVAR Project Office, UK

Jill Reisdorf: UCAR, USA

WGOMD-GSOP Workshop on Decadal Variability, Predictability, and Prediction: Understanding the Role of the Ocean

Key topics 

The following provides a list of topics and some key questions. We hope that the workshop participants will address these and other related questions in their presentations, posters, and discussions.

WGOMD-GSOP Workshop on Decadal Variability, Predictability, and Prediction: Understanding the Role of the Ocean

Motivation 

Some recent examples of regional scale climate variability and change such as the prolonged drought in the southwestern U.S., increased Atlantic hurricane activity, changes in commercial fish production in the North Pacific and northern North Atlantic and the recent melting of the outlet glaciers on Greenland have raised awareness about climate change and its impact on society on decadal time scales, including amongst decision and policy makers.

WGOMD-GSOP Workshop on Decadal Variability, Predictability, and Prediction: Understanding the Role of the Ocean

Poster 

Decadal SST Anomalies Confined To The North Pacific Subarctic Frontal Zone And Their Atmospheric Influences

B. Taguchi1, H. Nakamura2,3, M. Nonaka3, N. Komori1, A. Kuwano-Yoshida1, K. Takaya3 and A. Goto4

(1) Earth Simulator, JAMSTEC, (2) Uni. Tokyo, (3) Res. Inst. Global Change, JAMSTEC, (4) Japan Met. Agency