Program for 10th Annual MAM/GCC Workshop
Monday December 16 - Tuesday December 17, 2002
University of Toronto Faculty Club, 2nd Floor
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, ON


Monday, December 16
09:00-10:00 Daniel Jacob,
Harvard University
Tropospheric ozone: climatic impacts, and mapping of precursor emissions from space.
10:00-10:20 Keith Broekhuizen,
University of Toronto
CCN activity of organic aerosols.
10:20-10:40 Christine Braban,
University of Toronto
Organic aerosol phase transitions: implications for atmospheric heterogeneous chemistry.
10:40-11:10 Coffee break.
11:10-11:30 Parisa Ariya,
McGill University
Microbiological degradation of organic compounds in the boundary layer.
11:30-11:50 Andrew Ryzhkov,
McGill University
A theoretical study of the reactions of carbonyl oxide with water in the atmosphere: the role of water dimer.
11:50-12:10 David Plummer,
York University
Continuing development of tropospheric chemistry in CMAM.
12:10-12:30 Knut von Salzen,
CCCma, MSC Victoria
Sources and sinks of sulphate in deep convective clouds and their impact on aerosol concentrations in the upper troposphere.
12:30-13:30 Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room).
13:30-14:30 David Thompson,
Colorado State University
On the impact of the stratosphere on tropospheric climate.
14:30-14:50 David Sankey,
University of Toronto
Quantifying the tropopause mixing barrier in the CMAM.
14:50-15:10 Ian Folkins,
Dalhousie University
Frequency distribution of tropical rainfall.
15:10-15:40 Coffee break.
15:40-16:00 Lucy Campbell,
University of Toronto
QBO simulations with parameterized wave drag.
16:00-16:20 John Scinocca,
CCCma, MSC Victoria
Stratiform vs convective tropical precipitation in GCM3.
16:20-16:40 Sorin Codoban,
University of Toronto
Energetics of flows with momentum constraints.
16:40-17:00 Ted Shepherd,
University of Toronto
Dynamical influences on NH ozone trends.
18:00 Complimentary cocktails and dinner (Faculty Club Pub).
Tuesday, December 17
09:00-10:00 Gloria Manney,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Comparison of measurements and models in stratospheric polar vortex studies.
10:00-10:20 Kirill Semeniuk,
York University
CMAM as a testbed for remote sounding validation methods.
10:20-10:40 Stella Melo,
University of Toronto
Comparison of balloon and ground-based observations of stratospheric nitrogen and chlorine compounds with the CMAM.
10:40-11:10 Coffee break.
11:10-11:30 Debra Wunch,
University of Toronto
Can we predict the Fall turnaround in zonal wind over Vanscoy?
11:30-11:50 Stephen Beagley,
York University
Modelling polar ozone loss in the CMAM.
11:50-12:10 Jean de Grandpré,
McGill University
Ozone results from the WMO scenarios.
12:10-12:30 Xihong Wang,
York University
Status of numerical modelling of polar stratospheric clouds and their effect on stratospheric chemistry.
12:30-12:50 Ulrike Lohmann,
Dalhousie University
Importance of Pinatubo eruption for cirrus clouds formed by homogeneous freezing in the ECHAM GCM.
12:50-13:50 Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room).
13:50-14:10 Lisa Neef,
University of Toronto
Balance dynamics and Kalman filter data assimilation.
14:10-14:30 Shuzhan Ren,
ARMA, MSC Downsview
Update of CMAM 3DVAR assimilation results.
14:30-14:50 Yves Rochon,
ARQX, MSC Downsview
Preliminary study on the influence of assimilated dynamics on CMAM ozone.
14:50-15:20 Coffee break.
15:20-15:40 Jason Russell,
University of New Brunswick
Including NOx chemistry into the extended CMAM.
15:40-16:00 William Ward,
University of New Brunswick
Non-migrating tides in the extended CMAM.
16:00-16:20 Charles McLandress,
University of Toronto
Using a GCM and a mechanistic model to investigate the mechanisms responsible for damping the diurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere.
16:20-16:40 Jiangnan Li,
CCCma, MSC Victoria
New radiation scheme for the lower and middle atmosphere.
16:40-17:00 Victor Fomichev,
York University
Thermal response of the middle atmosphere to doubling of CO2 and radiative feedback.
END OF WORKSHOP