Monday November 20 - Tuesday November 21, 1995
University of Toronto Faculty Club, 2nd Floor
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario

Monday November 20

8:30 - Modelling middle atmosphere dynamics, transport, and chemistry with CCM2 and variants.Byron Boville, NCAR.

9:30 - An overview of the development of the Canadian MAM: MAMI through to MAMII.Stephen Beagley, York University.

10:00 - Diagnosis of dynamical transport in the Canadian MAM using two dimensional contour advection.John Koshyk, University of Toronto.

10:30 - Coffee break.

10:45 - Some upper boundary effects in a contour dynamics/surgery model of the stratospheric polar vortex.John Fyfe, CCCMA, Victoria, B.C.

11:15 - Using modified Lagrangian mean diagnostics on MAM data.Xiaoqing Li, University of Toronto.

11:45 - Implementation of a semi-Lagrangian transport scheme for moisture and chemical tracersin MAM: mass conservation and other diagnostics.Richard Harvey, UQAM.

12:15 - Lunch (Faculty Club).

1:15 - Middle atmosphere modelling and data analysis in UGAMP.Alan O'Neill, University of Reading, U.K.

2:15 - Response of the sponge to forcing and heating.Kirill Semeniuk, University of Toronto.

2:45 - Dynamical response to solar forcing at large zenith angles.Jean-Pierre Blanchet, UQAM.

3:15 - Coffee Break.

3:30 - The upward extension of MAM: science and organization.William Ward, ISTS.

4:00 - Preliminary results with a time-dependent tidal model: implication for tides in MAM.Charles McLandress, ISTS.

4:30 - Transport and chemistry processes.Jean de Grandpré, York University.

5:00 - Modelling of heterogeneous chemistry in the stratosphere.Darryl Chartrand, York University.

5:30 - Cocktail hour (Innis College Dining Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.)

6:30 - Dinner (Innis College Dining Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.)

Tuesday November 21

8:30 - Stratosphere-troposphere exchange: an overview.Ted Shepherd, University of Toronto.

9:00 - Measurements of stratospheric CO2 and other tracers from the NASA ER-2 Aircraft:implications and challenges for 2D and 3D models.Kristie Boering, Harvard University.

10:00 - Stratosphere-troposphere exchange: sideways and vertical.Ian Folkins, Dalhousie University.

10:30 - Coffee break.

10:45 - Towards a climatology of polar mesospheric clouds from the WINDII on UARS.Wayne Evans, Trent University.

11:15 - Observations of thermal structure and gravity wave activity above the High Arctic.Jim Whiteway, ISTS.

11:45 - Statistical climatology of short ( 6h) period GW by spectra and filtering,and vorticity and divergence for longer periods ( 1d) over the 500 km CNSR prairieMF radar array.Chris Meek, University of Saskatchewan.

12:15 - Lunch (Faculty Club).

1:15 - Progress toward development of a comprehensive gravity wave drag parameterization.Norman McFarlane, CCCMA, Victoria, B.C.

1:45 - Wave sources in the parameterization of gravity wave drag.Alex Medvedev, York University.

2:15 - The use of empirical normal modes in the diagnosis of gravity waves.Martin Charron, McGill University.

2:45 - Coffee Break.

3:00 - Gravity wave interactions in the vertical-wavenumber/frequency spectrum.Len Sonmor, York University.

3:30 - Regional scale simulations of mountain waves.Balaji, York University.

4:00 - Data assimilation projects for the middle atmosphere.Pierre Gauthier, RPN, Dorval, Que.

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