Thursday November 21 - Friday November 22, 1996
University of Toronto Faculty Club, 2nd Floor
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario

Thursday November 21

9:00 - The Canadian MAM project: Overview, current status, and future directions. T.G. Shepherd (University of Toronto), J.C. McConnell (York University), W.E. Ward (ISTS).

10:00 - What can we learn from observed and modeled tracer distributions?R.A. Plumb (MIT).

10:45 - Coffee break.

11:00 - Special problems of middle atmosphere data assimilation.R. Rood (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).

11:45 - 3D Constituent modeling using assimilated winds and comparisons with observations.A. Douglass (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).

12:30 - Lunch (Faculty Club).

1:30 - On the assimilation of stratospheric trace constituent observations.R. Ménard (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).

2:15 - Variational assimilation of total ozone measurements: Preliminary results.P. Gauthier, Y. Genin, F. Mereyde and A. Dastoor (Data Assimilation and Satellite Meteorology Division, AES).

2:35 - The Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument: Products and validation. J.R. Drummond, G.V. Bailak, G. Mand and B. Tolton (University of Toronto).

2:55 - Data assimilation and observing system simulation using MAM.D. Tarasick (Air Quality Experimental Research Branch, AES).

3:15 - Coffee Break.

3:30 - WINDII and the MAM.G.G. Shepherd (York University).

3:50 - Empirical model of 90-120 km horizontal winds from WINDII green line measurements in 1992-1993.D. Y. Wang, C. McLandress, E. L. Fleming, W. E. Ward, B. Solheim and G.G. Shepherd (York University).

4:10 - Upper mesospheric temperatures in summer: WINDII observations and comparisons.M.G. Shepherd (York University).

4:30 - Stratospheric airglow from the ozone-nitric oxide reaction.W.F. Evans (Trent University).4:50 - The OSIRIS instrument on Odin: Measurement of middle atmosphere O3, NO2, BrO and OClO concentration profiles.I.C. McDade (York University).

5:10 - Remote sounding of the stratosphere using ground-based zenith-sky spectroscopy.K. Strong (University of Toronto).

6:00 - Reception and Dinner (Faculty Club Pub, basement level)

Friday November 22

9:00 - Measurement capabilities of the Purple Crow Lidar.S. Argall (University of Western Ontario).

9:20 - Integrating measurements of gravity waves from the Purple Crow Lidarinto MAM.R.J. Sica (University of Western Ontario).

9:40 - Gravity-wave spectra and direction statistics as observed by MF radars in the Canadian prairies and at Tromso 69N.A.H. Manson (University of Saskatchewan).

10:00 - Gravity-wave sources in the tropopause - studies using the CLOVAR radar and radiosonde soundings.R. Belu and W. Hocking (University of Western Ontario).

10:20 - Coffee break.

10:40 - Five years of gravity wave observations at mid-latitude.D.N. Turnbull (University of Western Ontario).

11:00 - Trends in mesopause temperature.K.L. Gilbert (University of Western Ontario).

11:20 - Middle atmosphere winds and temperatures using a meteor radar.T. Thayaparan and W. Hocking (University of Western Ontario).

11:40 - MST radar and radiosonde observations of layers in the troposphere and lower stratosphere.W. Brown (McGill University).

12:00 - Lunch (Faculty Club).

1:00 - Results with a hybrid coordinate version of the SEF model.N. Ek and H. Ritchie (Recherche en Prévision Numérique, AES).

1:20 - The Northern Aerosol Regional Climate Model (NARCM) project.L.A. Barrie (Air Quality Experimental Research Branch, AES).

1:40 - Ideas for possible ionospheric feedbacks on middle atmospheric circulation and composition.J.-P. St. Maurice (University of Western Ontario).

2:00 - Open discussion.

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