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2016 ROMS Asia-Pacific Workshop
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
Hobart Waterfront, Tasmania, Australia
October 17 - 21, 2016



Monday October 17, 2016 - Ocean Circulation Modeling

08:00-08:45  Registration

08:45-09:00  Welcome and logistics



Chairperson: Hernan G. Arango

09:00-09:30  Ruoying He, North Carolina State University, USA (30 min)
Gulf Stream variability and a triggering mechanism of its large meander in the South Atlantic Bight
Rescheduled to 14:00 on Wednesday

09:00-09:30  John L. Wilkin, Rutgers University, USA (30 min)
Data Assimilative Modeling in Coastal and Shelf Waters of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Bight and Gulf of Maine
PPTX | PIC

09:30-10:00  John L. Wilkin, Rutgers University, USA (30 min)
Velocity and sea level anomaly wavenumber spectra in the coastal ocean: Observations from HF-radar and altimetry compared with nested high-resolution models
PPTX | PIC

10:00-10:30  Cristian Salas, Instituto de Investigacion Pesquera / Universidad de Concepcion, Chile (30 min)
Spatio-temporal dynamics of the subtropical front in the southeastern Pacific: a modeling approach
PPT | PIC




10:30-11:00  Break (30 min)




Chairperson: John Wilkin

11:00-11:30  Mark Hadfield, NIWA, New Zealand (30 min)
The mean flow through Cook Strait, New Zealand, is 0.4 Sv
PPTX | PIC

11:30-12:00  Moritz Wandres, The University of Western Australia, Australia (30 min)
The influence of the offshore current regime on shelf and nearshore wave climate in southwest Australia
PPTX | PIC

12:00-12:30  Ivica Janekovic, University of Western Australia, Australia (30 min)
Real-time/hindcast modelling system for Central Western Australia
PPTX | PIC




12:30-14:30  Lunch and Posters Session




Chairperson: Ruoying He David Gwyther

14:30-15:00  Ryan Holmes, University of New South Wales, Australia (30 min)
Interactions Between Kelvin waves and Tropical Instability Waves in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean and their Implications for SST Variability
PDF | PIC

15:00-15:30  Stefan Jendersie, Sea Ice Group, Otago University, New Zealand (30 min)
How competing seasonal processes control the Ross Sea dynamics
PDF | PIC

15:30-16:00  Weifeng "Gordon" Zhang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA (30 min)
The Dispersal of Polynya Dense Water on a Shallow Sloping Shelf
PPTX | PIC



16:00-16:30  Break/Group Picture (30 min)




Chairperson: Mark Hadfield

16:30-17:00 Wilma Huneke, University of Tasmania (IMAS), Australia (30 min)
Heat transport across the Antarctic Slope and its impact on ice shelf melting
PDF | PIC

17:00-17:30  Eva Cougnon, University of Tasmania (IMAS) & CSIRO, Australia (30 min)
Sustained basal mass loss after the 2010 calving event of the Mertz Glacier
PDF | PIC



Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - Ice/Ocean Modeling


Chairperson: David Gwyther

08:30-09:30  Kate Hedstrom, Istitute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA (60 min)
Tales of two sea-ice models
PDF | PIC

09:30-10:00  Ben Galton-Fenzi, AAD, ACE-CRC, University of Tasmania, Australia (30 min)
A TEOS-10 compliant version of ROMS for polar applications
HTML | PIC | PIC(2009)



10:00-10:30  Break (30 min)




Chairperson: Andreas Klocker

10:30-11:00  Michael Dinniman, Old Dominion University, USA (30 min)
Transport pathways and consequences for Antarctic ice shelf basal meltwater
PPTX | PIC

11:00-11:30  Kaitlin Alexander, CCRC (UNSW), ARCCSS, ACE CRC, Australia (30 min)
Simulating ice-shelf/ocean/sea-ice interaction in a circumpolar Antarctic domain
PDF | PIC

11:30-12:00  Lenneke Jong, University of Tasmania, Australia (30 min)
Coupled ice sheet-ocean modelling using FISOC
PDF | PIC



12:00-14:00  Lunch and Posters Session



Chairperson: Kate Hedstrom

14:00-14:30  David Gwyther, Antarctic Gateway Partnership, University of Tasmania, Australia (30 min)
Modelling regional ice shelf/ocean interaction with ROMS
PPTX | PIC

14:30-15:00  Helen Macdonald, NIWA, New Zealand (30 min)
Modelling of Ice-Shelf Cavity and Biogeochemical Dynamics in the Ross Sea
PPTX | PIC



15:00-15:30  Break (30 min)




Chairperson: Ben Galton-Fenzi

15:30-16:30  Andrew Stewart, University of California Los Angeles, USA (60 min)
Eddy mixing and transport at the Antarctic margins
PDF | PIC

16:30-17:00  Petra Heil, Australian Antarctic Division, Australia (30 min)
Sea-ice modelling: Recent advances and challenges
PIC



18:00-22:45  Reception: Peppermint Bay Cruise and Dinner (4 hours 45 minutes)






Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - Data Assimilation


Chairperson: Hernan G. Arango

08:30-10:00  Andrew M. Moore, University of California Santa Cruz, USA (90 min)
4D-Var Tutorial I
PPTX | PIC



10:00-10:30  Break (30 min)



10:30-12:00  Andrew M. Moore, University of California Santa Cruz, USA (90 min)
4D-Var Tutorial II
PPTX | PIC



12:00-14:00  Lunch and Posters Session



Chairperson: Ivica Janekovic

14:00-14:30  Ruoying He, North Carolina State University, USA (30 min)
Gulf Stream variability and a triggering mechanism of its large meander in the South Atlantic Bight
PDF | PIC Rescheduled from 09:00 on Monday

14:00-14:30  Andrew M. Moore, University of California Santa Cruz, USA (30 min)
Observation Impacts on Resolved Climate Variability in the California Current System
Rescheduled for Thursday 16:00

14:30-15:00  Colette Kerry, University of New South Wales, Australia (30 min)
Predicting Transport in the East Australian Current: Observation Impact from a regional reanalysis
PPTX | PIC

15:00-15:30  Frank Colberg, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (30 min)
Hydrodynamic models of the Great Barrier Reef
PPTX | PIC



15:30-16:00  Break (30 min)




Chairperson: Andrew M. Moore

16:00-16:30  Paul Sandery, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (30 min)
Ocean forecasting and reanalysis using ROMS with ensemble data assimilation
PDF | PIC

16:30-17:00  Pavel Sakov, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (30 min)
Regional ROMS/EnKF forecasting system for GBR
PDF | PIC

17:00-17:30  Arya Paul, INCOIS, India (30 min)
Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter for ROMS in Indian Ocean
PPT | PIC



Thursday, October 20, 2016 - Numerical Modeling


Chairperson: Michael Dinniman

08:30-09:30  Hernan G. Arango, Rutgers University, USA (60 min)
ROMS Algorithms: Nesting and Coupling
PPTX | PIC

09:30-10:00  Kial Stewart, Australian National University, Australia (30 min)
Vertical resolution in ocean models
PDF | PIC



10:00-10:30  Break (30 min)




Chairperson: John Wilkin

10:30-11:00  Gary Brassington, Research and Development, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (30 min)
Third-order upwinding with limiters for flooding estuaries
PPTX | PIC

11:00-11:30  Robin Robertson, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia (30 min)
Surface Mixing in ROMS
PPTX | PIC

11:30-12:00  EMS Wijeratne, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (30 min)
ozROMS - a high resolution 16 year re-analysis product for Australian and Indonesian Seas
PPTX | PIC



12:00-14:00  Lunch and Posters Session



Chairperson: Weifeng "Gordon" Zhang

14:00-14:30  Roger Proctor, IMOS, Australia (30 min)
MARVL: Marine Virtual Laboratory
PPTX | PIC

14:30-15:00  Fangfang Kuang, Third Institute of Oceanography State Oceanic Administration, China (30 min)
The cold water source and the role of tides on Guangdong Coastal Upwelling in summer: a numerical model study
PPTX | PIC

15:00-15:30  Xiaohui Liu, The Second Institute of Oceanography, China (30 min)
An application of ROMS model to the East China Sea: On the Kuroshio intrusion northeast of Taiwan
PPTX | PIC



15:30-16:00  Break (30 min)




Chairperson: Frank Colberg

16:00-16:30  Andrew M. Moore, University of California Santa Cruz, USA (30 min)
Observation Impacts on Resolved Climate Variability in the California Current System
PPTX | PIC Rescheduled from Wednesday 14:00

16:30-16:45  David Robertson, Rutgers University, USA (15 min)
ROMS Cyber Infrastructure
PPTX | PIC

16:45-17:30  Open Discussion

17:30             Adjourn