| Monday, December 15 | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Ken Carslaw, University of Leeds, UK |
PSCs, denitrification and ozone loss: do we have the problem solved? |
| 10:00-10:18 | Xihong Wang, York University |
Development of a microphysical and chemical model for polar stratospheric clouds. |
| 10:18-10:36 | Ulrike Lohmann, Dalhousie University |
First interactive simulations of cirrus clouds formed by heterogeneous freezing in a climate model. |
| 10:36-10:54 | Betty Carlin, Dalhousie University |
GCM carbon aerosol modelling. |
| 10:54-11:24 | Coffee break. | |
| 11:24-11:42 | Keith Broekhuisen, University of Toronto |
CCN activity of organic aerosols: the effect of oxidative processing. |
| 11:42-12:00 | Andrew Ryzhkov, McGill University |
Impact of the alkenes ozonolysis on sulfur oxidation in sulfate aerosols. |
| 12:00-12:18 | Cathy Reader, University of Victoria |
Mineral dust in the CCCma GCM. |
| 12:18-12:36 | Gerd Folberth, University of Victoria |
NMVOC gas-phase chemistry in the CMAM. |
| 12:36-12:54 | David Plummer, CCCma, MSC Downsview |
Tropospheric methane chemistry in the CMAM. |
| 12:54-13:54 | Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room). | |
| 13:54-14:12 | Bill Merryfield, CCCma, MSC Victoria |
Properties of a hybrid variable transformation for tracer advection. |
| 14:12-15:12 | Dominique Fonteyn, Belgian Institute of Space Aeronomy |
Chemical data assimilation - what is it? what can we learn from it? |
| 15:12-15:30 | Marion Marchand, York University |
Test of the night-time polar stratospheric NO2 decay and validation of the self-consistency of GOMOS NO3 and NOx data using chemical data assimilation. |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break. | |
| 16:00-16:18 | Shuzhan Ren, University of Toronto |
10 day verifications of CMAM-DA results. |
| 16:18-16:36 | David Sankey, University of Toronto |
The influence of assimilating dynamical variables on ozone in the CMAM. |
| 16:36-16:54 | Yan Yang, University of Toronto |
Upgrade of 3dvar and preliminary results of assimilating GOME ozone observations. |
| 16:54-17:12 | Mateusz Reszka, University of Toronto |
Dynamical balances in the tropical middle atmosphere. |
| 17:12-17:30 | Lisa Neef, University of Toronto |
Balance in the Kalman Filter - some results with a simple model. |
| 18:00 | Complimentary cocktails and dinner (Faculty Club Pub). | |
| Tuesday, December 16 | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
The tropical tropopause layer: nexus of the atmosphere. |
| 10:00-10:18 | Ian Folkins, Dalhousie University |
The tropical water vapour budget. |
| 10:18-10:36 | Yoshihiro Tomikawa, University of Toronto |
Baroclinic interaction between medium-scale tropopausal waves and short-period disturbances around the polar vortex edge. |
| 10:36-11:06 | Coffee break. | |
| 11:06-11:24 | Tiffany Shaw, University of British Columbia |
Assessing the importance of momentum conservation in the parameterization of gravity wave drag in atmospheric models. |
| 11:24-11:42 | Charles McLandress, University of Toronto |
A self-consistent intercomparison of gravity wave drag parameterizations. |
| 11:42-12:00 | Victor Fomichev, York University |
Solar heating by the near-IR CO2 bands in the mesosphere. |
| 12:00-12:18 | Jason Russell, University of New Brunswick |
WINDII oxygen climatology |
| 12:18-12:36 | Jian Du, University of New Brunswick |
Annual cycle of CMAM non-migrating tides and planetary waves. |
| 12:36-13:36 | Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room). | |
| 13:36-13:54 | William Ward, University of New Brunswick |
Strategies for unfolding the dynamical signatures in oxygen data near the mesopause. |
| 13:54-14:54 | Yvan Orsolini, Norwegian Institute for Air Research |
Ozone transport in the stratosphere. |
| 14:54-15:12 | Stella Melo, University of Toronto |
Comparison of stratospheric species measured during the MANTRA balloon campaigns with CMAM. |
| 15:12-15:42 | Coffee break. | |
| 15:42-16:00 | Kirill Semeniuk, York University |
Testing trajectory-based validation methods in CMAM. |
| 16:00-16:18 | Mike Pritchard, University of Toronto |
Pre-turnaround stratospheric wave diagnosis. |
| 16:18-16:36 | Andreas Jonsson, York University |
What photochemical mechanisms drive the ozone increase in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere in a 2xCO2 model experiment? |
| 16:36-16:54 | Jean de Grandpré McGill University |
Temperature analysis and ozone feedback. |
| 16:54-17:12 | Stephen Beagley, York University |
Dynamical variability and Antarctic ozone loss. |
| END OF WORKSHOP | ||