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2007 ROMS/TOMS Users Workshop
Bradley International Hall
University of California, Los Angeles
October 1-3, 2007



Monday, October 1, 2007

07:30-08:30  Registration

08:30-08:35  Welcome, logistics


Chairperson: Christopher R. Sherwood

08:35-09:05  James C. McWilliams, IGPP, UCLA (30 min)
Case Studies in Wave-Current Interaction
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09:05-09:30  Marcello G. Magaldi, RSMAS, University of Miami (25 min)
Capes and Form Drag: The Role of Stratification
PPT | PIC

09:30-09:55  Richard P. Signell, US Geological Survey, WHOI (25 min)
Modeling Sediment Dynamics of a Tidal Sand Bank
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09:55-10:20  Break (25 min)



Chairperson: John C. Warner

10:20-10:45  Yusuke Uchiyama, IGPP, UCLA (25 min)
A High-Resolution Nested Simulation on Non-Cohesive Suspended Sediment Transport Around Palos Verdes, California
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10:45-11:10  Fengyan Shi, Center for Applied Coastal Research (25 min)
Modeling of an Erosional Hot Spot at Ocean Beach, California
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11:10-11:35  Xiaochun Wang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, (25 min)
Modeling Tides in the Alaska Coastal Oceans
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11:35-12:00  Mehmet Ilicak, RSMAS, University of Miami (25 min)
Performance of the Two-Equation Turbulence Models in the Red Sea
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12:00-13:30  Lunch (90 min)



Chairperson: Richard P. Signell

13:30-14:00  Hernan G. Arango, IMCS, Rutgers University (30 min)
ROMS Framework and Algorithms
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14:00-14:30  John C. Warner, US Geological Survey, WHOI (30 min)
Implementation of Grid Nesting: A First Look with Grid Mosaics
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14:30-14:55  Patrick Marchesiello, IRD, Noumea center, New Caledonia (25 min)
Lateral Diffusion in Terrain-Following Coordinates: A Challenge
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14:55-15:20  Break (25 min)



Chairperson: James C. McWilliams

15:20-15:45  Xavier Capet, IO, Universidade of Sao Paulo, Brazil (25 min)
Upwelling Systems at (Sub)Mesoscale Resolution
PPT

15:45-16:10  Francois Colas, IGPP, UCLA (25 min)
A Numerical Study of the 1997-98 El Niņo off Peru
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16:10-16:35  Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Techonology (25 min)
Dynamics of Wind-Forced Coherent Vortices in the Open Ocean
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16:35-17:00  Changming Dong, IGPP, UCLA (25 min)
PV Anomaly in Shallow-Water Island Wake
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17:00-20:00  Reception


Tuesday, October 2, 2007


Chairperson: Hernan G. Arango

08:30-09:05  Enrique Curchitser, IMCS, Rutgers University (20 min)
Kate Hedström, ARCS/University of Alaska, USA (15 min)
ROMS as a component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
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09:05-09:30  Brian Powell, University of California, Santa Cruz (25 min)
Data Assimilation in the IAS Using IS4DVAR in ROMS
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09:30-09:55  Javier Zavala-Garay, IMCS, Rutgers University (25 min)
Towards an Operational Satellite-Based Analysis/Prediction System Using ROMS: An example for the East Australia Current
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09:55-10:20  Break (25 min)



Chairperson: Bruce D. Cornuelle

10:20-10:45  Zhijin Li, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (25 min)
A ROMS Three-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation System in Support of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
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10:45-11:10  Julia Levin, IMCS, Rutgers University (25 min)
Adjoint Sensitivity Studies in the Philippine Archipelago Region
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11:10-11:35  Natalie Perlin, COAS, Oregon State University (25 min)
Effects of Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling in a Modeling Study of Coastal Upwelling in the Area of Orographically-Intensified Flow
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11:35-12:00  Maitane Olabarrieta, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain (25 min)
Establishment of a Local Oceanography System: Application in the Cantabrian Coast
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12:00-13:30  Lunch (90 min)



Chairperson: Arthur J. Miller

13:30-14:00  Alexander F. Shchepetkin, IGPP, UCLA (30 min)
10 Years of the ROMS Project: An Overview with Emphasis on what is Overlooked, Overdue, or Missing
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14:00-14:25  Jeroen Molemaker, IGPP, UCLA (25 min)
Toward a Dynamically Consistent Boundary Forcing
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14:25-14:50  Y. Tony Song, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (25 min)
The Non-Boussinesq ROMS and Its Applications
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14:50-15:15  Break (25 min)



Chairperson: Alexander F. Shchepetkin

15:15-15:40  Jerome Fiechter, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (25 min)
A Simple Model of Iron Limitation on Phytoplankton growth in the Gulf of Alaska
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15:40-16:05  Hartmut Frenzel, IGPP, UCLA (25 min)
On the Role of Eddies for Coastal Productivity and Carbon Cycling
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16:05-16:30  Xin Jin, IGPP, UCLA (25 min)
Wind-SST Coupling in the Coastal Upwelling: An Empirical Numerical Simulation
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007


08:30-09:00 David Robertson, IMCS, Rutgers University (30 min)
ROMS Web Site
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09:00-09:50  Richard P. Signell, US Geological Survey, WHOI (50 min)
Tutorial 1: SVN and ROMS
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09:50-10:20  Break (30 min)


10:20-11:10  Kate Hedström, ARCS/University of Alaska, USA (50 min)
Tutorial 2: Setting up a Realistic ROMS Application
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11:10-12:00  Richard P. Signell, US Geological Survey, WHOI (50 min)
Tutorial 3: Grid Generation with SeaGRID
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12:00-13:30  Lunch (90 min)


13:30-14:20  John C. Warner, US Geological Survey, WHOI (50 min)
Tutorial 4: ROMS Coupling
WRF | PIC

14:20-15:10  Kate Hedström, ARCS/University of Alaska, USA (50 min)
Tutorial 5: ROMS Code Overview, Parallelism, and Debugging
WRF | PIC



15:10-15:40  Break (30 min)


15:40-16:30  To be determined (50 min)
Tutorial 6: To be determined



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