Monday November 15 - Tuesday November 16, 1999
University of Toronto Faculty Club, 2nd Floor
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario

Monday November 15

9:00 - The NASA Langley IMPACT General Circulation Model: Overview and recent coupled chemistry simulations.Richard Eckman, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA.

10:00 - From development to application: the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (CMAM).Stephen Beagley, York University.

10:20 - Middle atmosphere data assimilation using the CMAM.John Koshyk, University of Toronto.

10:40 - Coffee break.

11:10 - A composite analysis of sudden warmings in the CMAM.Jason Chaffey, University of Victoria.

11:30 - Preliminary evaluation of GEM in climate mode.Bernard Dugas, RPN, AES Dorval, QC

11:50 - The Extended CMAM: Model descriptionVictor Fomichev, York University

12:10 - The Extended CMAM: First resultsWilliam Ward, CRESTech, Toronto, ON.

12:30 - Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room).

1:30 - The role of equatorial waves in the semiannual oscillation of the middle atmosphere.Rolando Garcia, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado

2:30 - The stratospheric nonlinear Hadley circulation in CMAM.Kirill Semeniuk, University of Toronto.

2:50 - Nonlinear wavebreaking in a 3D primitive equation model.Diane Pendlebury, University of Toronto.

3:10 - Coffee break.

3:40 - Experiment with a gravity-wave drag parameterization in a GCM.Charles McLandress, York University.

4:00 - Aspects of gravity-wave paremeterization in the CMAM.Alex Medvedev, York University.

4:20 - Orographic gravity-wave drag in the MAECHAM4 model - the role of anisotropy.Norm McFarlane, CCCma, AES Victoria, BC

4:40 - Linear stability of inertio-gravity waves.Ka-Hing Yau, York University.

5:00 - The linearity of allegedly nonlinear waves in the middle atmosphere, and some consequences.Colin Hines, 15 Henry St., Toronto, ON.

5:30 - Complimentary cocktails and dinner (Faculty Club Pub).

Tuesday November 16

9:00 - Modelling of the global ozone budget in the troposphere.Guy Brasseur, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado.

10:00 - The tropical tropopause transition zone and its influence on the upper tropospheric ozone budget.Chris Braun, Dalhousie University.

10:20 - A 14.5km mixing barrier in the tropics.Ian Folkins, Dalhousie University.

10:40 - Coffee break.

11:10 - The addition of tropospheric chemistry to CMAM.David Plummer, York University.

11:30 - Laboratory studies of cirrus cloud chemistry.Jonathan Abbatt, University of Chicago.

11:50 - The impact of ozonolysis reactions on oxidation of S(IV) to S(VI) in tropospheric aerosols.Parisa Ariya, McGill University.

12:10 - Aerosols and clouds in the CCCma GCM.Ulrike Lohmann, Dalhousie University.

12:30 - Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room).

1:30 - The chemical and radiative response to the Mount Pinatubo eruption as modelled by CMAM.Darryl Chartrand, York University.

1:50 - The secondary ozone maximum in CMAM, true or not?Chao Fu, York University.

2:10 - Ozone studies - towards the 2xCO2 experiment.Jean deGrandpré, York University.

2:30 - Recent progress on the variational assimilation of ozone data.Pierre Gauthier, ARMA, AES Dorval, QC.

2:50 - Coffee break.

3:10 - On the nature of large-scale mixing in the stratosphere and mesosphere.Ted Shepherd, University of Toronto.

3:30 - A survey of chemical correlations in the CMAM.David Sankey, University of Toronto.

3:50 - The Arctic Oscillation, surface climate change and links to the middle atmosphere.John Fyfe, CCCma, AES Victoria, BC.

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