2022 CLIVAR-FIO Summer School Programme
CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate
14-20 August 2022, Qingdao China & Online (Time zone: GMT+8)
Livestream (click here) | Archived Recordings (Day 1 Part 1, Part 2 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6)
| Date/Theme | Time (GMT+8) | Topic | Speakers/Facilitator | Training material |
| Day 1 (Monday, 15 August) Overview/Dynamics (Archived recording: 09:00 - 12:30 GMT+8 password: xF=h.8%V 14:00 - 17:30 GMT+8) |
9:00-10:00 | Opening ceremony (Chair by: Dr. Li Li, FIO) | MNR, FIO, CLIVAR/WCRP | |
| 09:00 | Introducing the leaders and participants | Li Li | ||
| 09:05 | Opening remark from Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), China | Shengzhi Sun | ||
| 09:10 | Opening Remark from the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) | Mike Sparrow | ||
| 09:15 | Opening Remark from IOC-WESTPAC | Somkiat Khokiattiwon | ||
| 09:20 | Introduction to the CLIVAR-FIO Summer School series and ODC Center | Fangli Qiao | ||
| 09:30 | Introducing to CLIVAR-FIO Summer School | Jose Santos | ||
| 09:35 | Logistic information | Jing Li | ||
| 09:40 | Courses opening | |||
| 09:45 | Group photo | |||
| 10:00 | Overview of science issues | Walter Robinson | ||
| 10:30 | Discussion | Walter | ||
| 10:45 | Coffee break & Group photo | |||
| 11:15 | Statistical and Dynamical Analysis of Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies | Changming Dong | ||
| 11:45 | Mesoscale air-sea interaction: Impact of mesoscale SSTs on atmospheric weather patterns | Xiaohui Ma |
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| 12:15 | Discussion | Changming/Xiaohui | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | The Surface Wave Related Turbulence and its Key Roles in the Earth's Climate | Fangli Qiao |
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| 14:45 | Discussion | Fangli Qiao | ||
| 15:00 | Exercise: Examine the local atmospheric response to mesoscale SSTs in the Kuroshio extension region |
Xiaohui Ma / Weiwei Ma | ||
| 16:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 16:30 | Participants lightning talks | All students & teachers | ||
| Day 2 (Tuesday, 16 August) Air-sea interaction |
9:00 | Evidence for dynamical upwelling of ocean eddy influence on the atmosphere | Walter Robinson | |
| 9:30 | Mesoscale air-sea interaction: Upscaling mechanism from oceanic eddies to atmospheric storms | Xiaohui Ma |
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| 10:00 | Discussion | Walter/Xiaohui | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00 | Eddy-Resolving Global Ocean Prediction (the topic may have to be changed to focus on air-sea interation) | Changming Dong |
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| 12:00 | Discussion | |||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | Journal article discussion | Agostino Meroni | ||
| 14:30 | EUREC4A/ATOMIC overview and early result (1) - EUREC4A-OA (*Pre-course reading material is avaiable here) | Sabrina Speich | ||
| 15:00 | EUREC4A/ATOMIC overview and early result (2) - ATOMIC | Suneil Iyer | ||
| 15:30 | Discussion | Agostino Meroni | ||
| 15:45 | Exercise: The influence of oceanic eddies on the overlying atmospheric wind speed and rain rate | Changming Dong | ||
| 16:45 | Coffee break | |||
| 17:00 | Research ideas 'speed dating' | All students & teachers | ||
| 18:00 | Voting for top 10 research ideas | All students & teachers | ||
| Day 3 (Wednesday, 17 August Observation |
8:30 | Depart from hotel | All students & volunteers | |
| 9:00 | Site visit | All students & volunteers | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch & return to hotel | All students & volunteers | ||
| 14:30 | In situ observations of eddies & eddy-atmosphere interaction | Gwyn Evans |
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| 15:00 | The deformation and submesoscale ageostrophic motion within mesoscale eddy in South China Sea | Dongxiao Wang |
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| 15:30 | Satellite observation of eddies & eddy-atmosphere interaction - SeaSTAR | Adrien Martin |
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| 16:00 | Discussion | Gwyn Evans | ||
| 16:15 | Coffee break | |||
| 16:30 | Exercise: Work with Glider/Satellite data |
Gwyn Evans/Dongxiao/TBC | ||
| 17:30 | Work on Proposals | Groups | ||
| 21:00 | Evening online Q&A | Gwyn Evans | ||
| Day 4 (Thursday, 18 August Modeling |
9:00 | Representation of ocean macroturbulence in GCMs | Fangli Qiao |
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| 10:00 | Discussion | |||
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00 | A global eddy-resolving ocean forecast system in China – LICOM Forecast System (LFS) | Hailong Liu | ||
| 12:00 | Discussion | Zhenya Song/Hailong Liu | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | Journal article discussion (*Pre-course reading material is available here) | |||
| 14:30 | Role of ocean macroturbulence in climate simulation and prediction, projection---- Ideas from FIO-ESM | Zhenya Song | ||
| 15:15 | Discussion | Zhenya Song | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |||
| 16:00 | Exercise: A diagnostic toolkit for the impact of ocean model resolution |
Yiwen Li | ||
| 17:30 | Work on Proposals | Groups | ||
| Day 5 (Friday, 19 August) Biogeochemistry and societal relevance |
9:00 | Meso- and submeso-scale eddy dynamics and biogeochemical processes and the impact on heat and carbon transport (* Please all watch the presentation beforehand. The lecturer will ask questions and have a discussion during the allotted time.) | Annalisa Bracco | |
| 9:45 | Contribution of meso-/submeso- scale eddies to marine extreme events | Ivy Frenger | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00 | Discussion for Ivy's talk | Ivy Frenger | ||
| 11:30 | Physical/biological interactions at meso/submeso scales and its implication for decision makers | Alice della Penna | ||
| 12:15 | Discussion for Alice's talk | Alice della Penna | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | Journal article discussion | Alice della Penna | ||
| 14:30 | Breakout discussion: Identifying knowledge gaps in understanding of the phy/biological process with societal relevance | Alice/Ivy | ||
| 15:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 15:30 | Exercise: Marine predators in a turbulent ocean | Alice/Ivy | ||
| 17:00 | Work on Proposals | Groups | ||
| 21:00 | Evening online Q&A | |||
| Day 6 (Saturday, 20 August) Student research proposal presentations |
9:00 | Proposal presentations 15 mins each group + 5 mins discussions, group 1-6) | Groups | |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:30 | Wrap-up |
