【POSTPONED】CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate
CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate
2022, Qingdao China
The Summer School will be postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19. Please stay tuned for new announcement soon.
A joint CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on 'Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate' will take place in 2022 at the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources in Qingdao, China. The overview of this course is as follows:
Ocean macroturbulence comprises fronts, eddies, and currents on the ocean meso- and submeso-scales (1-300km). These features are ubiquitous in the world ocean, as revealed by observations and models now available at ever greater spatial resolutions. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that motions on these scales play fundamental roles in Earth’s climate system: by transporting heat, momentum, and nutrients within the ocean, by influencing air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and carbon, and by shaping marine ecosystems.
Leading experts in ocean macroturbulence will address the following topics:
- Observations: How are remote and in situ observations made on these scales, what new technologies (e.g. autonomous vehicles) are becoming available, and what are the challenges in analyzing and interpreting these data?
- Dynamics: What are the dynamical mechanisms that produce meso- and sub-mesoscale motions? How do they interact with larger-scale circulations?
- Modeling: How are meso- and submeso-scale motions represented in numerical models? What are the computational challenges to simulating these scales?
- Role in climate: How do meso- and submeso-scale motions influence air-sea interactions and fluxes of energy and nutrients between the near-surface and deeper ocean? How do they shape marine ecosystems? What is the importance of ocean macroturbulence for simulating and projecting climate change?
Activities will comprise lectures, problem-solving, and discussions of recent journal articles; instructors will provide observational and model data sets for groups of participants to analyze. Groups of students will develop and present proposals for new research.
Meanwhile, a training course organised by UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate (ODC) on 'Regional Application of Coupled Climate Models', which was originally scheduled back to back with the CLIVAR Summer School also in Qingdao, China, is now exploring the possibility to organise virtually.
Date and Venue
- CLIVAR-FIO Joint Summer School on ‘Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate’: 2022
- UNESCO/IOC ODC Training Course On 'Regional Application of Coupled Climate Models': TBD
We encourage you to apply to both courses. More information can be found on the website of CLIVAR (www.clivar.org) or the ODC Center at (http://odc.fio.com.cn/).
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To download the CLIVAR-FIO Summer School Poster | To download the ODC Training Course Poster |
Working Language
Affiliation: North Carolina State University, USA
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Affiliation: Florida State University, USA |
Affiliation: University of Washington, USA |
Affiliation: Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology |
Affiliation: UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC) |
Affiliation: Ocean University of China |
Affiliation: First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China |
Affiliation: Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France |
Affiliation: University of Miami. USA |
Application (Please stay tuned for the new announcement):
Dr. Jose Santos |
Dr Xunqiang Yin |