Programme
Tuesday 21 July Wednesday 22 July Thursday 23 July Friday 24 July Posters: Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Theme 4
Tuesday 21 July
14.00 |
Welcome |
14.10 |
Sir Mark Walport (UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser) |
14.30 |
Theme 1: Characterising the AMOC - structure, variability, mechanisms and ocean response. Chair: TBA |
14.30 |
Gerard McCarthy: Insights and impacts: the first 10 years of continuous observations of the Atlantic overturning circulation. Invited Abstract and presentation download |
15.10 |
Penny Holliday: Observations of subpolar North Atlantic variability and overturning circulation from the Extended Ellett Line. Abstract and presentation download. |
15.30 |
Tea / coffee |
16.00 |
Theme 1 continues. Chair: TBA |
16.00 |
Robert Pickart: Circulation of Dense Water Upstream and Downstream of Denmark Strait: A Review of Recent Observations and Modeling. Abstract |
16.20 |
Bogi Hansen: Increasing transport of volume, heat and salt in two high-latitude branches of the AMOC during the last two decades. Abstract |
16.40 |
John Loder: Recent Variability in Water Mass Properties in the Labrador Sea and Scotian Rise Regions. Abstract and presentation downloa. |
17.00 |
Jürgen Fischer: From Days to Decades: Variability of the Subpolar DWBC Transports. Abstract |
17.20 |
Isabela Le Bras: A decade of Line W mooring observations of the Deep Western Boundary Current. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only]. |
17.40 |
Graeme MacGilchrist: Variability of the North Atlantic ocean ventilation. Abstract and presentation download. |
18.00 |
Ice breaker |
Tuesday 21 July Wednesday 22 July Thursday 23 July Friday 24 July Posters: Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Theme 4
Wednesday 22 July
09.00 |
Theme 1 continues. Chair: TBA |
09.00 |
Bill Johns: Perspectives on ocean heat transport in the North Atlantic from the first decade of the RAPID-MOCHA array. Invited Abstract and presentation download |
09.40 |
Matthais Lankhorst: The Meridional Overturning Variability Experiment at 16N (MOVE) in Relation to Other Latitudes. Abstract |
10.00 |
Peter Rhines: The North Atlantic contribution to global ocean warming. Abstract |
10.20 |
Brian King: Regional variability of freshwater in the North Atlantic in the RAPID/Argo era. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only]. |
10.40 |
Tea / coffee |
11.10 |
Theme 1 continues. Chair: TBD |
11.10 |
Robert Marsh: Possible consequences for the AMOC of anomalous Subpolar Mode Water formation in winter 2013/14. Abstract |
11.30 |
Nicholas Foukal: Lagrangian pathways of temperature anomalies from the subtropical to the subpolar gyres in the North Atlantic. Abstract |
11.50 |
Rebecca Hummels: Interannual to decadal changes in the Western Boundary Circulation in the Atlantic at 11°S. Abstract |
12.10 |
Renellys Perez: Circulation and Water Mass Variability in the South Atlantic. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only]. |
12.30 |
Iain Gillespie, Natural Environment Research Council. |
12.50 |
Lunch |
14.00 |
Poster session. List of Theme 1 posters |
16.00 |
Theme 1 continues. Chair: TBA |
16.00 |
Helen Johnson: Reconstructing recent Atlantic overturning from surface wind and buoyancy forcing. Invited Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only]. |
16.40 |
Martha Buckley: The importance of the Transition Zone to decadal AMOC variability. Abstract |
17.00 |
Gokhan Danabasoglu: North Atlantic Simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II): Inter-Annual to Decadal Variability and Trends. Abstract and presentation download. |
17.20 |
Bablu Sinha: Revisiting the assumptions behind the RAPID: how accurately does the MOCHA array measure the AMOC? Abstract |
17.40 |
Peter Brown: Temporal variability of North Atlantic anthropogenic carbon fluxes and their sensitivity to the strength of the meridional overturning circulation. Abstract |
18.00 |
Day 2 closes |
20.00 |
Conference dinner |
Tuesday 21 July Wednesday 22 July Thursday 23 July Friday 24 July Posters: Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Theme 4
Thursday 23 July
09.00 |
Theme 2 Impacts of AMOC on the atmosphere, cryosphere and land. Chair: TBA |
09.00 |
Guillaume Gastineau: Atmospheric influence of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Invited Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only]. |
09.40 |
Luanne Thompson: Connections between AMOC and Air-Sea Interaction in the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current. Abstract |
10.00 |
Laura Jackson: Climate impacts of an AMOC shutdown in a high resolution GCM. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only]. |
10.20 |
Adam Blaker: Historical analogues to the recently observed minima in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Abstract and presentation download. |
10.40 |
Tea / coffee |
11.10 |
Theme 2 continues. Chair: TBA |
11.10 |
Rong Zhang: Impact of AMOC on the Low Frequency Variability of Summer Arctic Sea Ice Extent. Invited Abstract and presentation download. |
11.50 |
Yohan Ruprich-Robert: Interdecadal modulation of ENSO by the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability. Abstract and presentation download. |
12.10 |
Tom Delworth: The impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on 20th century climate through its influence on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only]. |
12.30 |
David Thornalley: A Holocene and last 1000 year perspective on variability in the deep currents of the AMOC: An exceptional twentieth century slowdown of the AMOC? Abstract and presentation download [restricted; please contact author for password]. |
12.50 |
Lunch |
14.00 |
Theme 3 AMOC state estimation, predictability and prediction. Chair: TBA |
14.00 |
Alicia Karspeck: Comparison of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation between 1960 and 2007 in six ocean reanalysis products. Invited Abstract |
14.40 |
Pablo Ortega: Reconstructing extreme AMOC events through nudging of the ocean surface. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only]. |
15.00 |
Steve Yeager: Predicted growth of Atlantic sea-ice in the coming decade. Abstract and presentation download. |
15.20 |
Tea / coffee |
16.50 |
Theme 3 continues. Chair: TBA |
16.50 |
Daniela Matei: Predicting near-term AMOC variations and their associated impact Invited Abstract |
17.30 |
Leon Hermanson: The role of the AMOC in multi-annual predictions of the Atlantic subpolar gyre in Met Office models. Abstract and presentation download. |
17.50 |
Rym Msadek: Exploring the influence of increased atmospheric resolution on AMOC-related predictability. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only]. |
18.10 |
Jon Robson: Predicting the subpolar North Atlantic up to a decade ahead. Invited Abstract |
18.50 |
Day 3 closes |
Tuesday 21 July Wednesday 22 July Thursday 23 July Friday 24 July Posters: Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Theme 4
Friday 24 July
09.00 |
Theme 4: Novel approaches to pan-Atlantic observations, modelling, analysis and synthesis. Chair: TBA |
09.00 |
Andreas Schmittner: Using carbon isotopes to reconstruct AMOC changes during the last deglaciation. Invited Abstract and presentation download. |
09.40 |
Elaine McDonagh: Atlantic BiogeoChemical (ABC) Fluxes: adding carbon and nutrients to the RAPID array, a contribution to NERC's RAPID-AMOC progamme. Abstract |
10.00 |
Eleanor Frajka-Williams: Using satellite observations to broaden our spatial view of AMOC variability. Abstract Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/eleanorfrajka/2015-07talkmtgrapidefwmocfromspacefinal. |
10.20 |
Richard Wood: Can we monitor how far the AMOC is from a threshold? Abstract |
10.40 |
Tea / coffee |
11.10 |
Theme 4 continues. Chair: TBA |
11.10 |
Jan Zika: How overturning circulation sets ocean heat uptake and why this matters for transient climate change. Invited Abstract and presentation download. |
11.50 |
Kevin Oliver: Reconstructing Atlantic and global overturning from meridional density gradients. Abstract and presentation download. |
12.10 |
Charlie Eriksen: Progress toward AMOC Estimation using Deepgliders. Invited Abstract and presentation download. |
12.50 |
Closing remarks |
13.00 |
Lunch |
14.00 |
Meeting closes |