Monday November 18 - Tuesday November 19, 1996
University of Toronto, Dept. of Physics
60 St. George St.
Rm. 110

Monday November 18

8:30 - Simulation of the middle atmosphere circulation with the ECHAM4 model.Elisa Manzini, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg.

9:30 - MAM developments: progress towards a comprehensive middle atmosphere GCM.Stephen Beagley, York University.

10:00 - The mechanistic MAM: some preliminary results.Xiaohong Wang, University of Victoria.

10:30 - Coffee break.

10:45 - A 3-year MAM simulation using the Hines Doppler-spread model of gravity-wave dragparameterization.Charles McLandress, ISTS.

11:15 - Coupling of orographic and Doppler-spread gravity-wave drag parameterizations inmiddle atmosphere models.Norm McFarlane, CCCma, Victoria.

11:45 - Progress with the Medvedev-Klaassen gravity-wave drag parameterization scheme.Alex Medvedev, York University.

12:15 - Lunch (Rm. 110).

1:15 - Some analysis of gravity waves in the GFDL SKYHI model.Martin Charron, McGill University.

1:45 - Regional scale simulations of mountain waves.Balaji, York University.

2:15 - Eikonal calculations of atmospheric gravity-wave interactions.Len Sonmor, York University

2:45 - The stability of inertio-gravity waves.Ka Hing Yau, York University

3:15 - Coffee Break.

3:30 - Analysis of the response of lower stratospheric NOx to perturbations fromsubsonic aircraft at DC-8 altitudes.Jacquelyn Witte, Dalhousie University.

4:00 - MAM chemistry module: latest results.Jean deGrandpré, York University.

4:30 - A preliminary comparison of the Canadian MAM and measurements from the Upper Atmosphere ResearchSatellite (UARS) for various chemical species.Pierre Croteau, York University.

5:00 - Evaluation of bromine chemistry in the lower stratosphere at mid-latitudes.Darryl Chartrand, York University.

6:00 - Cocktail hour (Innis College Dining Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.)

7:00 - Dinner (Innis College Dining Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.)

Tuesday November 19

8:30 - Validation of model and assimilated data sets.Ricky Rood, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre.

9:30 - MLM analysis of UARS data.Xiaoqing Li, University of Toronto.

10:00 - Stability of the polar night jet in the Canadian MAM.John Koshyk, University of Toronto.

10:30 - Coffee break.

10:45 - Solar radiation and atmospheric circulation in the Canadian MAM.Jean-Pierre Blanchet, Université du Québec à Montréal.

11:15 - Radiative sinks and sources in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere.Victor Fomitchev, York University.

11:45 - Dynamical/constituent interactions in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere.William Ward, ISTS.

12:15 - Lunch (Rm. 110).

1:15 - HRDI observations of stratospheric and mesospheric dynamics.Ruth Lieberman, University of Michigan.

2:15 - Lidar measurements of stratospheric aerosol and ozone in the Canadian High Arctic.Dave Donovan, ISTS.

2:45 - Thermal structure and gravity wave activity within and around the stratospheric polar vortex.Jim Whiteway, University of Toronto.

3:15 - Coffee Break.

3:30 - The diabatic circulation in the tropics.Kirill Semeniuk, University of Toronto.

4:00 - Chaotic advection in a shallow-water model of the stratosphere.Keith Ngan, University of Toronto.

4:30 - Vortex Rossby wave dynamics: theory and application to stratospheric winter polar vortex interior.Gilbert Brunet, Recherche en Prévision Numérique, AES Dorval.

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