Wednesday November 17 - Thursday November 18, 1999
University of Toronto Faculty Club, 2nd Floor
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario

Wednesday November 17

9:00 - Middle atmosphere data assimilation at Goddard Space Flight Center: Recent improvements and remaining problems.Larry Coy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

10:00 - The Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (CMAM): dynamical capabilities.Ted Shepherd, University of Toronto.

10:30 - Coffee break.

11:00 - Use of global models to interpret satellite observations of the iddle atmosphere.Guy Brasseur, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado.

12:00 - Chemical modelling in CMAM from the troposphere to the lower thermosphere.Jack McConnell, York University.

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

1:30 - Progress and future of size-distributed aerosol modelling in Canadian climate models: The aerosols and climate NARCM Projct.Len Barrie, ARQM, AES Downsview, ON.

2:00 - Comparisons of observations and GCM results: An overview.Charles McLandress, York University.

2:30 - Chemical modelling using CMAM: comparisons with measurements and use for future experiments.Darryl Chartrand, York University.

3:00 - Use and impact of satellite observations in a variational data assimilation system.Pierre Gauthier, ARMA, AES Dorval, QC..

3:30 - Coffee break.

4:00 - The CMC forecast system: capabilities and monitoring.Sylvie Gravel, RPN, AES Dorval, QC.

4:30 - An exercise in assimilating MLS temperatures using the GEM/3Dvar system.Yves Rochon, ARQX, AES Downsview, ON.

5:000 - Chemical modelling and satellite data assimilation (MOPITT and ODIN).Jacek Kaminski, York University.

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

Thursday November 18

9:00 - Composition and dynamics measurements with the Purple Crow Lidar.Bob Sica, University of Western Ontario.

9:30 - Observations of winds and waves in the MA (60 - 100km) using the MF Radar Pacific-N.A. Chain (2-52N), and comparisons with models (present and future).Alan Manson, University of Saskatchewan.

10:00 - Recent middle atmosphere measurements from the ground and balloons.Kim Strong, University of Toronto.

10:30 - Coffee break.

11:00 - Environment Canada measurements related to the study of the atmosphere.David Wardle, ARQX, AES Downsview, ON..

11:30 - Spaceborne ozone lidar: user needs and enabling technologies.Alex Dudelzak, CSA, St. Hubert, QC.

12:00 - Lunch (Faculty Club Upper Dining Room).

1:00 - Temperature, water vapour, polar mesospheric clouds and climate change.Marianna Shepherd, York University.

1:30 - Aerosols in the middle atmosphere from WINDIIWayne Evans, Trent University.

2:00 - Simultaneous wind, temperature and constituent observations from the Mesospheric Imaging Michelson Inferometer (MIMI): Data analysis opportunities and challenges.William Ward, CRESTech, Toronto, ON.

2:30 - The Stratospheric Wind InterFerometer for Transport studies (SWIFT), the Microsat Experiment for Sound Oxygen (MESO), and their relevance to the MAM.Ian McDade, York University.

3:00 - Coffee break.

3:30 - OSIRIS on Odin - what we expect to measure.Ted Llewellyn, University of Saskatchewan.

4:00 - Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, ACE.Peter Bernath, University of Waterloo.

4:30 - Adding a UV-Vis spectrometer to the ACE satellite. What is the science benefit?Tom McElroy, ARQX, AES Downsview, ON.

5:00 - MOPITT: A new view of the troposphere.Jim Drummond, University of Toronto.

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