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RAPID Annual Science Meeting Agenda

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Tuesday afternoon, 7th July

12:30Arrival and registration
14:00
 
David Anderson:
Chair, RAPID-WATCH PAG
Welcome
 
14:05Meric Srokosz:Introductions

Session 1 - Chair: Meric Srokosz

14:15Sybren Drijfhout:Is the stability of the Atlantic THC changed by global warming? Invited talk
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15:05Peter Challenor:The RAPID-RAPIT (Risk Assessment, Probablities and Impacts Team) Project.RAPID-WATCH project introduction
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15:25Hiro Yamazaki:Plan for ChAAOS project - Change in the Atlantic in the Atmosphere-Ocean System. RAPID-WATCH project introduction
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15:35

TEA

16:00Laura Jackson:Evaluating changes in the MOC: rapid events and variability
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16:20Laure Zanna:Optimal perturbations of meridional overturning circulation anomalies
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16:40Beena B. Sarojini:High frequency variability of the Atlantic MOC
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17:00Pablo Ortega:The predictability of the Atlantic overturning circulation in millennial simulations with the ECHO-G model.
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17:20Simon Tett:What are the roles of natural and human drivers in historical changes in the Atlantic Meridional Circulation? RAPID-WATCH project introduction
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17:30

Wine Reception


Wednesday morning, 8th July

Session 2 - Chair: Ed Hawkins

9:15 Michael McPhaden:Transition from Research to Operations: Lessons from NOAA's TAO Array. Invited talk
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10:05Stuart Cunningham:Sub-seasonal to seasonal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5N.
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10:25Bill Johns:Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport at 26.5°N from the RAPID-MOCHA Array.
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10:45Helen Johnson:Basin-wide integrated volume transports in an eddy-filled ocean.
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11:05Rowan Sutton:VALOR: VALue Of the RAPID array for climate predictions. RAPID-WATCH project introduction

11:15

COFFEE

11:45Shane Elipot:Bottom Pressure Recorder and mooring data analysis from the RAPID-WAVE
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12:05Rory Bingham:The signature of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in sea level along the coast of North America.
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12:25Zoltan Szuts:Vertical structure and baroclinic modal decomposition of RAPID density moorings for comparison with sea surface height and bottom pressure.
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12:45Robin McCandliss:RAPID Data. Update
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12:55

LUNCH


Wednesday afternoon, 8th July

14:00

POSTER SESSION

Posters are displayed for the duration of the meeting.

15:30

TEA

Session 3 - Chair: Ian Hall

16:00Lloyd Keigwin:Ventilation of the deep western North Atlantic during recent millennia. Invited talk.
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17:10John Lowe:Environmental responses to THC variations during the Last Termination: refining the sequence of events in the North Atlantic sector.
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16:50Sheldon Bacon:Ocean Circulation, Fluxes and Variability near Cape Farewell, southern Greenland.
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17:30Bill Austin:The 14C age of glacial North Atlantic surface waters: Greenland.
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17:50Grant Bigg:Modelling abrupt glacial North Atlantic freshening: rates of change and their implications for Heinrich events
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18:10END

TBC

Annual Meeting Dinner


Thursday morning, 9th July

Session 4 - Chair: Paul Williams

9:15Josh Willis:Interannual Changes in the Upper-Ocean Circulation of the North Atlantic from Altimeter and Argo Data. Invited talk.
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10:05Eleanor O'Rourke:The Effect of Topography on Thermohaline Adjustment.
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10:25Ric Williams::The imprint of gyre signals in historical changes of water masses and implied overturning for the North Atlantic.
10:45Neil Wells:Meridional Overturning circulation at 26N and the North Atlantic heat COntent (MONACO). RAPID-WATCH project introduction.
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10:55

COFFEE

11:25Jeremy Grist:Can We Estimate MOC Variability from Surface Density Fluxes Alone?
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11:45Ed Hawkins:Estimation of optimal perturbations for decadal climate predictions.
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12:05Tim Woolings:Variability and change of the North Atlantic jetstream.
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12:25

LUNCH


Paleao Workshop, Thursday afternoon, 9th July

Conveners: John Lowe and Jonathan Holmes

13:30

Presentations with implications for future work

Jillian Anderson:Using Multivariate Calibration to Improve the Reconstruction of Deep-sea Temperature and Carbonate Ion Saturation Estimates During the Last 30000 Years
Lisa Baldini:A 14,000 year precisely dated speleothem palaeoclimate record from La Garma cave, northern Spain, and a spatial-temporal examination of Holocene speleothem oxygen isotope records across Europe
Grant Bigg:Modelling abrupt glacial North Atlantic freshening: rates of change and their implications for Heinrich events
Jonathan Holmes:Data - model comparisons of isotope records of Holocene climate in Europe and N. America
Catherine Jex:Multiple speleothem-based reconstructions of LGM to Holocene palaeoclimate from North East Turkey
Dick Kroon / S.Jung:Enhanced Arabian Sea intermediate water flow during glacial North Atlantic cold phases
John Lowe:Development and demise of the last glaciers in the Scottish Highlands during the Loch Lomond (Younger Dryas) Stadial
Jennifer Stanford:Meltwater Injections and Their Impact on Atlantic
David Thornalley:Palaeoceanography of the northern North Atlantic over the past 21 ka, based on multi-species foraminiferal δ18O-Mg/Ca

15:00

TEA

15:30

Discussion

17:00

Workshop ends


List of Posters

Posters are on display for the full duration of the meeting

  1. Wind driven transports at 26N in the North Atlantic. [Chris Atkinson]
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  2. Response of the CHIME coupled climate model to two climate forcing scenarios. [Adam Blaker]
  3. North Atlantic Holocene temperatures recorded in the Mg/Ca ratios of surface and thermocline dwelling planktonic foraminifers. [Mark Chapman]
  4. Surface and deep ocean coupling in the subpolar North Atlantic during the last 230 years. [Ian Hall]
  5. The potential to narrow uncertainty in regional climate predictions. [Ed Hawkins ]
  6. Abrupt changes in North Atlantic ventilation during Marine Isotope Stage 4 (59 to 71ka). [Fiona Hibbert]
  7. Linking the meridional overturning circulation at 26.5°N to large scale oceanic and atmospheric patterns [Joel Hirschi]
  8. Variability of heat and salinity contents in the North Atlantic within the last decade. [Vladimir Ivchenko]
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  9. The RAPID Data Centre and RAPID-WATCH. [Robin McCandliss]
  10. Determining Ocean Correlation Scales using Argo Float Data [Lorna McLean]
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  11. Comparing the control climate of the CHIME coupled model with HadCM3. [Alex Megann]
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  12. Variability of the Antilles Current and Deep Western Boundary Current from four years of PIES and CPIES data at 26.5°N [Christopher Meinen]
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  13. The use of autonomous underwater gliders as part of the RAPID system for monitoring the meridional overturning circulation [Paul Wright]
  14. An assessment of Holocene diatom palaeoproxies from the subpolar North Atlantic. [Katie Miller]
  15. Status of the RAPID 26.5N Atlantic Meridional overturning array [Darren Rayner]
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  16. An observed rapid warming of the North Atlantic in the 1990s. [Jon Robson]
  17. Ocean Thermohaline Circulation Stability: traceability between a simple model and a GCM. [Josė Rodriguez]
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  18. Model assessment of overturning changes in the North Atlantic between 1950-1970 and 1980-2000. [Vassil Roussenov]
  19. A comparison of model-simulated vs. observed MOC variability at 26.5°N [Ben Shaw]
  20. The role of mean ocean salinity in climate. [Paul Williams].
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  21. Calculation of the MOC timeseries: data products and availability [Paul Wright]