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Monday October 22, 2012

08:00-08:50 Registration

08:50-09:00 Welcome and logistics

Chairperson: Mauricio Fragoso

09:00-09:40 Ruoying He, North Carolina State U., USA (40 min)

An integrated Ocean Circulation, Wave, Atmosphere and Marine Ecosystem Prediction System for the South Atlantic Bight and Gulf of Mexico

09:40-10:10 Jeroen Molemaker, IGPP-UCLA, USA (30 min)

Submesoscale Dynamics in the Wintertime North Western Atlantic

10:10-10:30 Break (20 min)

Chairperson: Arthur Miller

10:30-11:00 Xavier Capet, LOCEAN - CNRS, France (30 min)

Fine-scale turbulent processes: mesoscale stirring and submesoscale instabilities

11:00-11:30 James Farley Nicholls, Imperial College, UK (30 min)

Inertial currents in the Caspian Sea

11:30-12:00 Gustavo Mastrorocco Marques, RSMAS, USA (30 min)

On modeling the turbulent exchange in buoyancy-driven fronts

12:00-15:00 Lunch (3 hours)

Chairperson: Douglas Gherardi

15:00-15:30 Art Miller, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, USA (30 min)

Isolating Mesoscale Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Kuroshio Extension Region

15:30-16:00 Joao Marcos Souza, SOEST, U. of Hawaii, USA (30 min)

Hawaiian Islands Operational System

16:00-16:30 Carlos Teixeira, Labomar UFC, Brasil (30 min)

Dynamics of Spencer Gulf: Effects of Evaporation, Heating and Tides

16:30-17:00 Hak-Soo Lim, KIOST, South Korea (30 min)

Operational coastal modeling for the coastal waters of Korea using ROMS

17:00-18:00 Poster Session 1 (60 min)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Chairperson: Hernan G. Arango

09:00-09:40 Andrew M. Moore, UC Santa Cruz (40 min)

Characterization of Forecast Error using Singular Value Decomposition

09:40-10:10 Brian Powell, University of Hawaii Manoa, USA (30 min)

Combining a Model with Observations: Data Assimilation in ROMS

10:10-10:30 Break (20 min)

Chairperson: Charitha Pattiaratchi

10:30-11:00 Frank Colberg, CSIRO, Australia (30 min)

The impact of future changes in weather patterns on extreme sea levels over southern Australia

11:00-11:30 Robert Hetland, Texas A&M University, USA (30 min)

Wind and density driven flow along the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf

11:30-12:00 Xiaoqian Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA (30 min)

A numerical investigation of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya freshwater transport, filling and flushing times on the Texas-Louisiana Shelf

12:00-13:30 Lunch (90 minutes)

Chairperson: John Wilkin

13:30-14:00 Bronwyn Cahill, Informus GmbH, Germany (30 min)

Interannual Variability of Primary Production and Carbon Fluxes along the U.S. Eastern Continental Shelf: Impact of Atmospheric Forcing?

14:00-14:30 Paulo Calil, FURG, Rio Grande - RS, Brasil (30 min)

Biological Relevance of Submesoscale Processes in the Stratified, Oligotrophic Ocean

14:30-15:00 Marcus Silva, UFPE, Recife - PE, Brasil (30 min)

Simulating the tropical Atlantic air-sea CO2 exchange with a Regional high resolution ocean modeling system

15:00-15:30 Luciano Pezzi, INPE/CPTEC, Brasil (30 min)

The Regional Ocean Modeling initiatives at INPE: An overview of South Atlantic Ocean modeling and biochemical studies

15:30-16:30 Poster Session 2 (60 min)

17:00-21:30 Cruise Reception

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Chairperson: Brian Powell

09:00-09:40 Hernan Arango, IMCS, Rutgers University (30 min)

Upcoming ROMS Algorithms

09:40-10:10 David Robertson, IMCS, Rutgers U., USA (30 min)

Building ROMS and using the ROMS Matlab repository

10:10-10:30 Break (20 min)

Chairperson: Andrew M. Moore

10:30-11:00 Chari Pattiaratchi, U. of W. Australia, Australia (30 min)

Modelling meso-scale dynamics along western and southern Australian shelf and slopes: A ROMS modelling approach

11:00-11:30 Patrick Marchesiello, IRD, France (30 min)

ROMS effective resolution

11:30-12:00 Felipe Soares, PROOCEANO, Brasil (30 min)

A 16 Year Hindcast of Southeastern Brazilian Basin Using ROMS

12:00-15:00 Lunch (3 hours)

Chairperson: Carlos Teixeira

15:00-15:30 Leonado Marques da Cruz, PROOCEANO, Brasil (30 min)

On the Variability of the Brazil Current Stability Conditions Near Cabo Frio

15:30-16:00 Mauro Cirano, UFBA, Salvador - Bahia, Brasil (30 min)

An overview of the shelf and shelf/slope regional modeling initiatives along the Brazilian coast: the REMO contribution towards operational oceanography and environmental monitoring

16:00-16:30 Rafael Schiller, Marintek do Brasil, Brasil (30 min)

Integrating ocean modelling to R&D projects in marine technology: future perspectives for the O&G Industry

18:00 Adjourn

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Special Session on Modern Observational and Modern Modeling Systems

Chairperson: Mauricio Fragoso

09:00-09:40 Chari Pattiaratchi, U. of W. Australia, Australia (40 min)

Ocean observations in Western Australia

09:40-10:20 Scott Glenn, IMCS, Rutgers U., USA (40 min)

The Rise of Regional-scale Ocean Observatories for Science, Society and Security in the United States, and the Development of Collaborative Global Networks

10:20-10:40 Break (20 min)

Chairperson: Scott Glenn

10:40-11:20 Mauricio Fragoso, PROOCEANO, Brasil (40 min)

Santos Basin Ocean Observing System - Project Blue

11:20-11:50 Rogerio Candella, IEAPM-Brazilian Navy, Brasil (30 min)

Long-term oceanographic measurements along the Brazilian coast: Characteristics and Perspectives

11:50-12:20 Afonso Paiva, COPPE/UFRJ, Brasil (30 min)

Ocean Observation in the Scope of the Ocean Science INCT in Brazil

12:20-14:00 Lunch (100 minutes)

Chairperson: John Wilkin

14:00-14:40 Andrew M. Moore, UC Santa Cruz, USA (40 min)

Quantifying the Value of Observations in Ocean State Estimation

14:40-15:20 Brian Powell, University of Hawaii Manoa, USA (40 min)

Quantifying real-time observations on model state estimation

15:20-15:40 Break (20 min)

Chairperson: Andrew M. Moore

15:40-16:20 John Wilkin, IMCS, Rutgers University, USA (40 min)

An evaluation of real-time forecast models of Middle Atlantic Bight continental shelf waters

16:20-18:00 Open Discussion (1 hour 40 min)

18:00 Adjourn