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2010 ROMS/TOMS User Workshop
Hawaii Imin International Conference Center
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
April 5 - 8, 2010



Monday April 5, 2010

08:00-08:50  Registration

08:50-09:00  Welcome and logistics



Chairperson: Brian S. Powell

09:00-09:30  John Warner, U.S. Geological Survey (30 min)
Development and application of a Coupled-Ocean-Atmosphere-Waves-Sediment Transport (COAWST) Modeling System
PPT | WebEx | PIC

09:30-10:00  John Osborne, COAS - Oregon State University (30 min)
The M2 Internal Tide over the Oregon Shelf
PDF | PIC

10:00-10:30  Lionel Renault, OceanBIY/IMEDEA, Spain (30 min)
Resonant coupling of oceanic gravity waves forced by travelling atmospheric disturbances with destructive effects in harbors: meteo-tsunamis in the Balearic Sea
PPT | PIC



10:30-11:00  Break / Posters (30 min)




Chairperson: Robert D. Hetland

11:00-11:30  Ruoying He, North Carolina State University (30 min)
Modeling the Circulation, Coastal Connectivity, and Harmful Algal Blooms in the Gulf of Maine
PPT | PIC

11:30-12:30  Alexander F. Shchepetkin, IGPP, UCLA (60 min)
Rethinking mode splitting, splitting in general, Boussinesq, non-Boussinesq, seawater EOS, and how it all comes together
PDF | WebEx | PIC




12:30-14:00  Lunch / Posters(90 minutes)




Chairperson: John C. Warner

14:00-14:30  Robert Hetland, Texas A&M University (30 min)
Modeling circulation on the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf
PDF | PIC

14:30-15:00  Maitane Olabarrieta, U.S. Geological Survey (30 min)
U.S. East Coast Storm Surge, Wind Wave and Runup Simulations During the Extratropical Remnants of Hurricane Ida
PPT | PIC

15:00-15:30  Dian Putrasahan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (30 min)
Coupled Air-Sea Interactions in the Southeast Pacific
PPT | PIC



15:30-16:00  Break / Posters (30 min)




Chairperson: Richard P. Signell

16:00-16:30  Andrei Natarov, IPRC, University of Hawaii Manoa (30 min)
A numerical study of the effects of wind and upstream conditions on the Hawaiian circulation
PDF | PIC

16:30-17:00  Liejun Zhong, CSIRO, Australia (30 min)
Seasonal variability of the Leeuwin Current on the west coast of Australia
PPT | PIC

17:00-17:30  Frank Colberg, CSIRO, Australia (30 min)
Pathways and Impact of Southern Ocean currents on Antarctic Ice Sheet melting in response to global warming
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18:00-21:00  Reception (3 hours)



Tuesday, April 6, 2010


Chairperson: Hernan G. Arango

09:00-10:00  Andrew M. Moore, UC Santa Cruz (60 min)
A Comprehensive 4D-Var Data Assimilation and Analysis System Applied to the California Current System using ROMS
PPT | Webcast | PIC

10:00-10:30  Alexander Kurapov, COAS, Oregon State University (30 min)
Variational Assimilation of Satellite Observations in the Coastal Ocean
PPT | PIC



10:30-11:00  Break / Posters (30 min)




Chairperson: Andrew M. Moore

11:00-11:30  Brian Powell, University of Hawaii Manoa (30 min)
Assimilation of HF radar: Raw or Cooked?
PDF | PIC

11:30-12:00  Peng Yu, COAS, Oregon State University (30 min)
Variational Assimilation of HF Radar Surface Currents in the Coastal Ocean Circulation Model off Oregon
PPT | PIC

12:00-12:30  Ivica Janekovic, University of Hawaii Manoa (30 min)
Data Assimilation in a Shallow, Island Coastal Environment
PPT | PIC



12:30-14:00  Lunch / Posters (90 minutes)




Chairperson: Alexander L. Kurapov

14:00-14:30  Zhijin Li, Jet Propulsioni Laboratory (30 min)
A Data Assimilation System for Costal Ocean Real-Time Predictions
PPT | PIC

14:30-15:00  Dax Matthews, SOEST, University of Hawaii Manoa (30 min)
Data Assimilation in a high-resolution, sub-mesoscale regional model of Hawaii
PDF | PIC

15:00-15:30  Gildas Cambon, LEGOS, France (30 min)
Interannual to decadal upwelling variability in the Humboldt system: A downscaling experiment with ROMS designed for the period 1958-2005
PPT | PIC



15:30-16:00  Break / Posters (30 min)




Chairperson: Ruoying He

16:00-16:30  Kate Hedstrom, ARSC, U. of Alaska Fairbanks (30 min)
Development of a climate-to-fish-to-fishers model: data structures and domain decomposition
PPT | PIC

16:30-17:00  Diego Narvaez, CCPO, Old Dominion University (30 min)
Coupling an Individual-Based Model to the Regional Ocean Model System (ROMS): Application on larval dispersal studies
PPT | PIC

17:00-17:30  Jeffrey Dorman, UC Berkeley (30 min)
Modeled population biology of Euphausia pacifica in the California Current using the Regional Ocean Modeling System Coupled with an Offline Individual-Based Model.
PPT | PIC



Wednesday, April 7, 2010


Chairperson: Alexander F. Shchepetkin

09:00-09:30  Hernan Arango, IMCS, Rutgers University (30 min)
ROMS Framework and Algorithms
PPT | PIC

09:30-10:00  Florian Lemarié, IGPP, UCLA (30 min)
Towards the minimization of the spurious diapycnal mixing in sigma-coordinate ocean models
PDF | PIC

10:00-10:30  Robert Hetland, Texas A&M University (30 min)
Pythonlab not Matlab
PIC



10:30-11:00  Break / Posters (30 min)




Chairperson: Kate S. Hedstrom

11:00-11:30  Amy MacFadyen, OR&R/NOS/NOAA (30 min)
Use of Operational Forecast Systems in Oil Spill Trajectory Modeling
PPT | PIC

11:30-12:00  Aijun Zhang, CO-OPS/NOS/NOAA (30 min)
ROMS Applications in NOS Operational Forecast Systems
PPT | PIC
12:00-12:30  Paul Budgell, MUN, Canada (30 min)
Simulation of Seasonal and Decadal-Scale Variability in the Caspian Sea
PPT | PIC



12:30-14:00  Lunch / Posters (90 minutes)




Chairperson: Hernan G. Arango

14:00-14:30  Richard P. Signell (presented by John Warner), U.S. Geological Survey (30 min)
Improving the process of getting data to drive models: The OOI-CI & IOOS-DMAC Intersection Development Project
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14:30-15:00  David Robertson, IMCS, Rutgers University (30 min)
ROMS: NetCDF and Matlab
PPT | PIC



Thursday, April 8, 2010


09:00-10:30  Andrew M. Moore, Tutorial I (90 min)
ROMS 4D-Var: The Secrets Revealed
PPT | Webcast | PIC



10:30-11:00  Break (30 min)



11:00-12:00  Ivica Janekovic, Tutorial II (60 min)
Smoothing Bathymentry
PPT | PIC




12:00-13:30  Lunch (90 minutes)



13:30-14:30  Kate Hedstrom, Tutorial III (60 min)
Using GIT to Manage Code
PDF | PIC

14:30-15:30  Kate Hedstrom, Tutorial IV (60 min)
Parallelism in ROMS
PDF | PIC