Programme for 13th Annual MAM/GCC Workshop
Monday December 12 - Tuesday December 13, 2005
University of Toronto Faculty Club, 2nd Floor
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, ON


Monday, December 12
09:00-10:00 Lesley Gray,
University of Reading, UK
Interaction of the QBO and the 11-year solar cycle.
10:00-10:20 Victor Fomichev,
York University
Amplification of the diurnal tide in the mesosphere in response to increased CO2.
10:20-10:50 Ted Shepherd,
University of Toronto
The contribution of chemistry-climate models to the WMO/UNEP Ozone Assessment process: issues and prospects.
10:50-11:20 Coffee break.
11:20-11:40 Susann Tegtmeier,
University of Potsdam
Persistence of ozone anomalies in the CMAM.
11:40-12:00 James Anstey,
University of Toronto
Planetary wave reflection and the QBO.
12:00-12:20 Jean de Grandpré,
McGill University
GRIPS intercomparison study on the impact of climate change on stratosphere-troposphere mass fluxes: CMAM results.
12:20-12:40 Stephen Beagley,
York University
Untangling the web: exploring the changing anthropogenic chemical impacts on the stratosphere of the past and future.
12:40-13:40 Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room).
13:40-14:40 Richard Stolarski,
NASA Goddard
Evaluation of chemistry-climate model results using long-term satellite and ground-based data.
14:40-15:00 Elham Farahani,
University of Toronto
Lunar and solar FTIR nitric acid measurements at Eureka in winter 2001/2002: comparisons with observations at Thule and Kiruna and with CMAM and SLIMCAT model calculations.
15:00-15:20 Matt Toohey,
University of Toronto
Ozone variability and its vertical structure: the CMAM and observations.
15:20-15:50 Coffee break.
15:50-16:10 Thomas Birner,
University of Toronto
The thermal structure of the UTLS in observations and models.
16:10-16:30 Michaela Hegglin,
University of Toronto
Validation of UTLS tracer distributions in CMAM with SPURT aircraft measurements.
16:30-16:50 Jianjun Jin,
York University
Severe Arctic ozone reduction in the winter 2004/2005: ACE observations.
16:50-17:10 Kirill Semeniuk,
York University
Interpretation of ACE observations during the 2004/2005 Arctic winter through photochemical box modelling along trajectories.
18:00 Complimentary cocktails and dinner (Faculty Club Pub).
Tuesday, December 13
09:00-10:00 Steve Eckermann,
NRL, Washington DC
Observing and modeling gravity waves globally in the stratosphere.
10:00-10:20 Tiffany Shaw,
University of Toronto
Angular momentum conservation and gravity wave drag parameterization; implications for climate models.
10:20-10:40 Lisa Neef,
University of Toronto
Gravity waves in nonlinear sequential data assimilation.
10:40-11:10 Coffee break.
11:10-11:30 Shuzhan Ren,
University of Toronto
The status of CMAM-DA and diagnoses of sudden warmings in both northern and southern hemispheres in 2002.
11:30-11:50 David Sankey,
University of Toronto
Effects of data assimilation initialization methods on the mesosphere.
11:50-12:10 Yulia Nezlin,
University of Toronto
Simulations with ensemble perturbations in CMAM-DA.
12:10-12:30 Mateusz Reszka,
University of Toronto
New dynamical constraints in 3DVAR for CMAM-DA.
12:30-13:30 Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room).
13:30-13:50 William Ward,
University of New Brunswick
Migrating and non-migrating tides in CMAM.
13:50-14:10 Jian Du,
University of New Brunswick
Comparisons between CMAM tides and ground based and satellite observations.
14:10-14:30 Charles McLandress,
University of Toronto
Large-scale dynamics of the MLT: an analysis using CMAM.
14:30-14:50 Diane Pendlebury,
University of Toronto
Quasi-two-day wave in the CMAM.
14:50-15:20 Coffee break.
15:20-15:40 Ian Folkins,
Dalhousie University
Using chemical tracers as tests of convective transport.
15:40-16:00 Cathy Reader,
University of Victoria
Radiatively active mineral dust in GCM15.
16:00-16:20 Jiming Sun,
McGill University
Investigation of ice initiation in warm-based convective clouds and the role of bacteria in this process.
16:20-16:40 David Plummer,
MSC Dorval
A stratospheric-tropospheric CCM with methane photochemistry.
16:40-17:00 Gerd Folberth,
University of Victoria
A stratospheric-tropospheric CCM with methane+NMVOC photochemistry.
END OF WORKSHOP