CLIVAR/GOOS Indian Ocean Panel

IOP-6 MEETING
3-5 June 2009, La Reunion
Final Agenda (June 1st, 2009)

PRESENTATIONS

The folliowing "zip" file contains all the presentations IOP6_talks.zip. The ASCLME presentation is missing at present.

Wednesday June 3rd:
OPENING:
08:45 Delegates arrive - tea and coffee available
09:00 Welcome by LOC (G. Therry)
09:10 Welcome by ICPO (K. Stansfield)
09:20 Review of the agenda and Action Items (Y. Masumoto and W. Yu)
09:40 Report on SSG-16: CLIVAR legacy and future of WCRP (Y. Masumoto and W. Yu)

SCIENCE TALKS 1: Research activities in La Reunion
10:00 Operational activities on tropical cyclones at RSMC La Reunion
(Philippe Caroff)
10:20 Research activities about tropical cyclones (Matthieu Plu)

11:10 SWICE experiment (Frank Roux)
11:30 Cyclone modelling and observations (M. Lengaigne)
11:50 OPAR: Atmospheric Research lab of the University of La Reunion (R. Delmas)

UPDATES ON INDOOS AND RECENT SCIENCE-RESULTS FROM THE DATA STREAMS
13:20 RAMA (M. McPhaden (15 -20 mins), M. Ravichandran (10-15 mins), Y. Matsumoto (15 mins)
14:10 XBT Network (G. Meyers)
14:40 Argo float status in the IO (M. Ravichandran)
15:00 The IndOOS Data Portal (M. Ravichandran)

INDOOS RESOURCES FORUM (IRF)
15:10 Report on IOGOOS's endorsement (ref: IOGOOS-VI, Dec 2008) regarding the development of an IRF (N. D'Adamo and Y. Masumoto)
16:00 Development of the IRF in response to IOGOOS-VI: ToR, membership, Secretariat support (G. Meyers, M. McPhaden, N. D'Adamo, Y. Masumoto)

ENHANCEMENT OF INDOOS
16:30 NOAA bilateral programs in the region (Sid Thurston)
16:45 Air-Sea heat, freshwater and momentum fluxes in the Indian Ocean (L. Yu)
17:00 Repeat Hydrographic observations and GO-SHIP proposal (Y. Masumoto) - no slides
17:15 IOTWS "ocean": current status and future plans (Nick D'Adamo input from Tony Elliott)
17:30 Close

Thursday June 4th:
PLANNING NEW MULTINATIONAL PROCESS STUDIES
09:00 MISMO results and CINDY plans (K. Yoneyama)
09:30 US contribution to CINDY: DYNAMO (Mike McPhaden) - no slides
09:40 New science results and TRIO project plans (J. Vialard)
10:00 YOTC, AMS, IMS (J. McCreary) - no slides

HARMONISATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SIBER AND THE IOP FRAMEWORK
11:00 Report on IOGOOS's recommendations regarding the development of SIBER as a project complementary to IOP (ref: IOGOOS-VI, Dec 2008) (R. Hood, N. D'Adamo and Y. Masumoto)
11:20 IOP representation, through membership, on SIBER (Y. Masumoto and W. Yu) - no slides
11:40 Developing the SIBER science plan in coherence with IOP's framework (Raleigh Hood)
12:10 Proposal to deploy Indoflux CO2 sensors on some RAMA buoys (P.V. Sundareshwar Palloor)

SCIENCE TALKS 2: Research activities of new members and new research activities by old members
14:00 Modeling the Oxygen Minimum Zone in the Arabian Sea (Raleigh Hood)
14:20 Two-year oscillations of the monsoon and global climate in the present decade (Debasis Sengputa)
14:40 The Leeuwin Current in the southeast Indian Ocean (Ming Feng)
15:00 Modeling the oceanic response of cyclone Nargis (T. Lee)
15:20 Near-surface eastward flows in the Southern Indian Ocean (Jay McCreary)

REGIONAL ISSUES - 1
16:10 LOCO and Agulhas Current monitoring (W. de Ruijter) (30 min)
16:40 Report on SW IO workshop (W. de Ruijter) (10 min) - see talk at 16:10
16:50 ASCLME (T. Bornman)
17:10 IMOS (G. Meyers)

17:30 Present status of Indian moorings in Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea (M. Ravichandran)

Friday June 5th
REGIONAL ISSUES - 2

08:50 African Monitoring of Environment for a Sustainable Developement (R. Badal)
09:00 Observation and research activities in Kenya (C. Magori)
09:20 Discussion on establishing link between IndOOS and regional and coastal observing systems (general discussion)

CONTRIBUTION TO WCRP CROSS CUT THEMES
09:40 Potential project on Intra-Seasonal to Seasonal predictability (G. Vecchi)
10:00 Australian droughts to Indian Ocean - extreme events (G. Meyers) - Not Discussed
10:20 New JAMSTEC work on down-scaling basin-wide predictions for regional climate (Y. Masumoto)

RELATED ACTIVITIES:
11:00 Indian Ocean indices estimated by ocean reanalysis products (T. Lee and other IOP analysts)
11:20 WGOMD repository for the Evaluation of Ocean Simulations (G. Vecchi)
11:40 OceanObs09 (Y. Masumoto) - Not Discussed
12:00 Joint IOGOOS/SEAGOOS pilot project titled: Ocean Forecast Demonstration projects in IOGOOS and SEAGOOS (N. D'Adamo)

Panel Business:
12:20 Wrap-up discussion (all panel)
12:40 Membership and Next meeting (all panel)
12:50 Closing remarks (Sponsors and co-chairs)

14:30 Co-chairs, local host and Secretariat wash-up discussion