Programme

Welcome

Sir Mark Walport (UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser)

Theme 1: Characterising the AMOC - structure, variability, mechanisms and ocean response.   Chair: TBA

Gerard McCarthy: Insights and impacts: the first 10 years of continuous observations of the Atlantic overturning circulation. Invited Abstract and presentation download

Penny Holliday: Observations of subpolar North Atlantic variability and overturning circulation from the Extended Ellett Line. Abstract and presentation download.

Tea / coffee

Theme 1 continues.   Chair: TBA

Robert Pickart: Circulation of Dense Water Upstream and Downstream of Denmark Strait: A Review of Recent Observations and Modeling. Abstract

Bogi Hansen: Increasing transport of volume, heat and salt in two high-latitude branches of the AMOC during the last two decades. Abstract

John Loder: Recent Variability in Water Mass Properties in the Labrador Sea and Scotian Rise Regions. Abstract and presentation downloa.

Jürgen Fischer: From Days to Decades: Variability of the Subpolar DWBC Transports. Abstract

Isabela Le Bras: A decade of Line W mooring observations of the Deep Western Boundary Current. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only].

Graeme MacGilchrist: Variability of the North Atlantic ocean ventilation. Abstract and presentation download.

Ice breaker

Theme 1 continues.   Chair: TBA

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

Matthais Lankhorst: The Meridional Overturning Variability Experiment at 16N (MOVE) in Relation to Other Latitudes. Abstract

Peter Rhines: The North Atlantic contribution to global ocean warming. Abstract

Brian King: Regional variability of freshwater in the North Atlantic in the RAPID/Argo era. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only].

Tea / coffee

Theme 1 continues. Chair: TBD

Robert Marsh: Possible consequences for the AMOC of anomalous Subpolar Mode Water formation in winter 2013/14. Abstract

Nicholas Foukal: Lagrangian pathways of temperature anomalies from the subtropical to the subpolar gyres in the North Atlantic. Abstract

Rebecca Hummels: Interannual to decadal changes in the Western Boundary Circulation in the Atlantic at 11°S. Abstract

Renellys Perez: Circulation and Water Mass Variability in the South Atlantic. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only].

Iain Gillespie, Natural Environment Research Council.

Lunch

Poster session.   List of Theme 1 posters  

Theme 1 continues.   Chair: TBA

Helen Johnson: Reconstructing recent Atlantic overturning from surface wind and buoyancy forcing. Invited Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only].

Martha Buckley: The importance of the Transition Zone to decadal AMOC variability. Abstract

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.

Bablu Sinha: Revisiting the assumptions behind the RAPID: how accurately does the MOCHA array measure the AMOC? Abstract

Peter Brown: Temporal variability of North Atlantic anthropogenic carbon fluxes and their sensitivity to the strength of the meridional overturning circulation. Abstract

Day 2 closes

Conference dinner

Theme 2 Impacts of AMOC on the atmosphere, cryosphere and land.   Chair: TBA

Guillaume Gastineau: Atmospheric influence of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Invited Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only].

Luanne Thompson: Connections between AMOC and Air-Sea Interaction in the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current. Abstract

Laura Jackson: Climate impacts of an AMOC shutdown in a high resolution GCM. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only].

Adam Blaker: Historical analogues to the recently observed minima in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Abstract and presentation download.

Tea / coffee

Theme 2 continues.   Chair: TBA

Rong Zhang: Impact of AMOC on the Low Frequency Variability of Summer Arctic Sea Ice Extent. Invited Abstract and presentation download.

Yohan Ruprich-Robert: Interdecadal modulation of ENSO by the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability. Abstract and presentation download.

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].

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].

Lunch

Theme 3 AMOC state estimation, predictability and prediction.   Chair: TBA

Alicia Karspeck: Comparison of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation between 1960 and 2007 in six ocean reanalysis products. Invited Abstract

Pablo Ortega: Reconstructing extreme AMOC events through nudging of the ocean surface. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only].

Steve Yeager: Predicted growth of Atlantic sea-ice in the coming decade. Abstract and presentation download.

Tea / coffee
Poster session for   Theme 2 , Theme 3 , and Theme 4

Theme 3 continues.   Chair: TBA

Daniela Matei: Predicting near-term AMOC variations and their associated impact Invited Abstract

Leon Hermanson: The role of the AMOC in multi-annual predictions of the Atlantic subpolar gyre in Met Office models. Abstract and presentation download.

Rym Msadek: Exploring the influence of increased atmospheric resolution on AMOC-related predictability. Abstract and presentation download [meeting participants only].

Jon Robson: Predicting the subpolar North Atlantic up to a decade ahead. Invited Abstract

Day 3 closes

Theme 4: Novel approaches to pan-Atlantic observations, modelling, analysis and synthesis.   Chair: TBA

Andreas Schmittner: Using carbon isotopes to reconstruct AMOC changes during the last deglaciation. Invited Abstract and presentation download.

Elaine McDonagh: Atlantic BiogeoChemical (ABC) Fluxes: adding carbon and nutrients to the RAPID array, a contribution to NERC's RAPID-AMOC progamme. Abstract

Eleanor Frajka-Williams: Using satellite observations to broaden our spatial view of AMOC variability. Abstract   Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/eleanorfrajka/2015-07talkmtgrapidefwmocfromspacefinal.

Richard Wood: Can we monitor how far the AMOC is from a threshold? Abstract

Tea / coffee

Theme 4 continues.   Chair: TBA

Jan Zika: How overturning circulation sets ocean heat uptake and why this matters for transient climate change. Invited Abstract and presentation download.

Kevin Oliver: Reconstructing Atlantic and global overturning from meridional density gradients. Abstract and presentation download.

Charlie Eriksen: Progress toward AMOC Estimation using Deepgliders. Invited Abstract and presentation download.

Closing remarks

Lunch

Meeting closes