Monday December 15 - Tuesday December 16, 1997
University of Toronto Faculty Club, 2nd Floor
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario

Monday December 15

9:00 - Middle atmosphere modelling in UGAMP.John Thuburn, University of Reading.

10:00 - Latest developments with the CMAM: progress toward a comprehensivemiddle atmosphere climate model.Stephen Beagley, York University.

10:25 - Coffee break.

10:55 - Multi-year scenarios with the CMAM chemistry module.Jean deGrandpré, York University.

11:20 - An assessment of the CMAM chemistry module using satellite observations.Pierre Croteau, York University.

11:45 - A proposed aerosol experiment using the CMAM.Jonathan Jiang, University of Quebec at Montreal.

12:10 - Heterogeneous chemistry in the Chemical Transport Model (CTM).Darryl Chartrand, York University.

12:35 - Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room).

1:35 - GFDL SKYHI model developments - ultrafine resolution, incorporationof a forced QBO, and ozone chemistry.Kevin Hamilton, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton.

2:35 - A spectral analysis of the GFDL SKYHI model.John Koshyk, University of Toronto.

3:00 - Gravity-wave diagnosis for the GFDL SKYHI model.Gilbert Brunet, RPN, Dorval.

3:25 - Coffee Break.

3:55 - CMAM simulations using the Medvedev-Klaassen spectral gravity wave dragparameterization.Alex Medvedev, York University

4:20 - Gravity-wave processes in the CMAM: effects of internal heating and verticaldiffusion.Norm McFarlane, CCCma, Victoria.

4:45 - Measurements of temporal spectra in the upper stratosphere.Albert Russell, University of Western Ontario.

5:10 - Observations of gravity waves and stratospheric warming.Tom Duck, ISTS.

5:35 - Global observations of atmospheric gravity waves using data from the MicrowaveLimb Sounder.Charles McLandress, University of Washington.

6:00 - Cocktails and dinner (Faculty Club Lounge).

Tuesday December 16

9:00 - Global stratospheric transport: assessing the assessment models.Tim Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, NY.

10:00 - Chaotic advection in the stratosphere of CMAM.Keith Ngan, University of Chicago.

10:25 - Coffee break.

10:55 - On the turbulent diffusivity related to isentropic ozonetransport at the edge of the Antarctic polar stratospheric vortex.Alain Vincent, CERCA, University of Montreal.

11:20 - Seasonal variation of CO in the lower stratosphere.Ian Folkins, Dalhousie University.

11:45 - Tropical upwelling: local vs. extratropical control.Kirill Semeniuk, University of Toronto.

12:10 - Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room).

1:10 - The linear stability of inertio-gravity waves.Ka-Hing Yau, York University.

1:35 - Scale dependence in atmospheric gravity-wave interactions.Len Sonmor, Dalhousie University.

2:00 - Self-induced breakdown of vertically-propagating planetary waves.Xiaohong Wang, University of Victoria.

2:25 - Coffee Break.

2:55 - The CMAM upward extension: current status.Wiliam Ward, ISTS.

3:20 - Radiative scheme for the upward extension of the CMAM.Victor Fomitchev, York University.

3:45 - Planetary wave effects on mean zonal transport of species.Svetlana Soukhanova, AES, Downsview.

4:10 - Preparation of the MAM model for the assimilation of stratospheric measurements:a status report.Nils Ek, RPN, Dorval.

4:35 - Ozone analyses obtained by assimilating total ozone data from theGlobal Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME).Pierre Gauthier, RPN, Dorval.

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