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Southern Ocean Region Panel Meeting |
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Meeting Date: 14-17th November 2006
Location: Palacio San Martín, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Buenos Aires
Day 1. Tuesday the 14th
8.45-9.15 Welcome (Servicio de Hidrografía Naval, the Dirección Nacional del Antártico and the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional plus Mike Sparrow & Carlos Ereño on behalf of CLIVAR).
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9.15-9.30 Introduction (Kevin Speer, Ian Renfrew, Mike Sparrow)
- Aims of meeting, main issues panel needs to address etc.
9.30-9.55 Report from CLIVAR SSG (Doug Martinson)
- relationship to panel’s work
9.55-10.10 Report from CliC SSG (Ian Renfrew)
- relationship to panel’s work
10.10-10.30 ICPO issues (Mike Sparrow)
- New CLIVAR FOCUS e-zine, meeting report, website, actions from last meeting etc.
10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.00-11.30 Relationship with SCAR/SCOR Oceanography Expert Group including SOOS (Eberhard Fahrbach)
11.30-11.55 OOPC updates and links to panel (Yasu Fukumachi)
11.55-12.30 Links between ACC fronts and atmospheric variability (Kevin Speer)
12.30-13.00 Summary and Discussion of Indices in the Southern Ocean Region - revisited on Wednesday (Kevin Speer to lead)
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 IPCC models in Southern Ocean region (Hugues Goosse, Claudio Menendez, input from Dave Thompson)
- Are the key underlying physical mechanisms plausibly represented in the models?
- Role of SO panel, other modeling projects (ocean, atmosphere, coupled?)
16.00-16.30 Tea/Coffee
16.30-17.10 Southern ocean - ice-shelf interaction from an observations and modeling viewpoint (Dave Holland)
17.10-17.30 Discussion
Day 2. Wednesday the 15th (closed session)
8.45-8.55 Day’s aims etc. (Kevin Speer, Ian Renfrew, Mike Sparrow)
8.55-9.35 Regional ocean modeling and/or regional coupled modeling (Karen Assmann) and
Polar Model Intercomparison Projects (Dave Holland)
9.35-9.50 Discussion
9.50-10.30 Ventilation of Ocean Heat along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (Doug Martinson)
10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.00-12.00 Update on CASO and IPY (Steve Rintoul, Alex Orsi)
- general update & panel’s continuing role in CASO. SASSI/iAnZone and other IPY issues
12.00-13.00 Met. Observations (Ian Renfrew)
- Radiosones, balloons, AWS, buoys, other sustained Met obs? What is missing, where are gaps, how to improve network…
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.15 Sustained hydro Obs (Sabrina Speich)
15.15-16.00 Transport monitoring (Weddell, Ross, …) (Steve Rintoul, Alberto Naveira, Alex Orsi)
16.30-17.30 Panel’s role in producing or assessing indices, from data and models (continued from Tuesday).
Day 3. Thursday the 16th (morning open session and afternoon panel/invited experts only)
Science morning - panel interaction with 'local' scientists
8.30-8.45 Introduction & Welcome (Kevin Speer, Ian Renfrew, Mike Sparrow)
8.45-9.15 "South Atlantic meridional heat flux" (Alberto Piola)
9.15-9.45 "Climate variability in South America: Influence of the Southern Oceans" (Carolina Vera)
9.45-10.15 "SMN Scientific Activities in Antarctic and Subantarctic regions" (Osvaldo Barturen)
10.15-10.45 Coffee/Tea
10.45-11.15 "Antarctic sea ice and climate variability over South America" (Rosa Hilda Compagnucci & Sandra Barreira)
11.15-11.45 "The role of the Weddell Sea in the global CO2 sink" (Alejandro Bianchi)
11.45-12.15 "The role of different phytoplankton groups on the CO2 dynamics in the South-Western Atlantic Ocean" (Irene Schloss)
12.15-12.45 "Glacio-climatic investigations carried out by IAA in southern Patagonia and Antarctic Península" (Pedro Skvarca)
12.45-13.15 "The biological contribution to the atmosphere-ocean-bottom CO2 fluxes: Myth or reality" (Gustavo Ferreyra & Serge Demers)
13.15-14.30 Lunch
SO region Panel Meeting continued...
14.30-15.15 Future CLIVAR-related process studies (Kevin Speer)
15.15-16.00 Model/data assimilation and GSOP (Alberto Naveira)
16.00-16.30 Tea/Coffee
16.30-17.00 Update on satellite Observations (Sabrina Speich to lead?)
17.00-18.00 Regional atmospheric reanalysis (Ian Renfrew, Kevin Speer)
- Update from Bromwich?
- Validation and assessment of the quality of air-sea flux products in the SO region?
- Does this serve a climate process study goal? Are there key processes resolved only by reanalysis?
*** Evening - Tango/Dinner at Madero Tango ***
Day 4. Friday the 17th (closed session)
8.45-8.55 Day’s aims etc. (Kevin Speer, Ian Renfrew, Mike Sparrow)
8.55-9.30 Final discussion on panel's role. Final comments etc.
9.30-10.30 End of meeting actions, document options, book concept, indices article, IPCC relevant statement, for role of SO in climate etc.
10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee
Meeting end.
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Ian Renfrew
Kevin Speer
Yasushi Fukumachi
Hugues Goosse
Doug Martinson
Alberto Naveira Garabato
Steve Rintoul
Sabrina Speich
Eberhard Fahrbach
Karen Assmann
Claudio Menendez
David Holland
Alex Orsi
Viviana Alder
Matilde Rusticucci
Carolina Vera
Mike Sparrow
Carlos Ereño
(Note that the list of attendees on the Science day was much higher as it included the speakers as well as other local scientists and students)
Background documents:
Indices background document (input from Michiel)
Powerpoint presentation given by Doug to SSG
IGOS Cryosphere document in or
. (Relevant sections are SO (~pgs 79-82) and sea ice recommendations ( pgs 25-26)
Action items update from last meeting (1 page only) in and formats
The CLIVAR Roadmap - powerpoint presentation
Last GSOP report (). A short SO region summary can be read here
Last Southern Ocean region panel meeting report (includes workshop report) in and formats
Establishing a Coordinated Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) report ()
Report of the Working Group on Ocean Model Development ()
Report of the last meeting of the CLIVAR Pacific Panel ()
Report of the last meeting of the CLIVAR-GOOS Indian Ocean Panel ()
Report of the last meeting of the CLIVAR Atlantic Ocean Panel ()