SPARC DA and IPY 2007

S P A R CStratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate

A core project of the World Climate Research Programme _

SPARC DATA ASSIMILATION and SPARC IPY WORKSHOPS

4-7 September 2007

Toronto, ON Canada Fields Institute, University of Toronto

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

09:00 Welcome

09:10 SPARC Science and Data Assimilation ,Saroja Polavarapu

CHEMICAL DATA ASSIMILATION

09:30 Richard Menard: Coupled chemistry-dynamics data assimilation

10:00 Jean de Grandpré: On the extraction of wind information from the 4D-var assimilation of chemical constituents

10:30 Coffee break and posters

11:00 Frank Baier: The impact of ground based ozone monitoring on stratospheric ozone assessments: A case study using sequential and variational data assimilation

11:30 Jörg Schwinger: Cross validation of MIPAS/SAGE II and MIPAS/HALOE trace gas observations by means of four dimensional variational assimilation

12:00 Yves Rochon: – 3D-FGAT assimilation of MIPAS-IMK and GOMOS chemical data

12:30 --- Lunch (90 min.) ---

14:00 Sarah Lu: Global aerosol forecasting and data assimilation in GFS/GSI: Overview and Progresses

14:30 Gloria Manney: Near-Real-Time Processing Plans for Aura MLS Data for Use in Data Assimilation

15:00 Poster Ads (3 min each)

15:30 Coffee break

DYNAMICAL DATA ASSIMILATION

16:00 Didier Auroux: Back and forth nudging algorithm for data assimilation problems

16:30 Heiner Körnich: Equatorial waves as a balance relationship in global data assimilation

17:00 Matt Reszka: New 3D-Var Dynamical Constraints at Environment Canada

17:30 Ice breaker and posters

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE COUPLING

09:00 Adam Scaife INVITED: Stratospheric influences on surface winter climate and prospects for seasonal forecasting

09:45 Ronald M. Errico: General Characteristics of Stratospheric Singular Vectors

10:15 Mike Keil: Impact of Different Representations of Ozone on Tropospheric Weather Forecasts

10:45 Coffee break and posters

11:15 Kris Wargan: Variability of Assimilated Ozone in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere

11:45 Michaela I. Hegglin: The benefits of in-line advection - Assessing the transport characteristics of the CMAM-DAS

12:15 --- Lunch (90 min.) ---

MESOSPHERE

13:45 Charles McLandress INVITED: An overview of the dynamics of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

14:30 Ruth S. Lieberman: Intercomparison and fusion of EOS/MLS and TIMED/SABER temperatures

15:00 Valery A. Yudin: Constraining Zonal Mean Flow and Diurnal Tide by Space-borne Data

15:30 Coffee break and posters

16:00 V. Lynn Harvey The mesospheric polar vortices in GEOS, WACCM, SABER, and EOS-MLS

16:30 Lisa Neef: Gravity Waves in Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation

17:00 Yulia Nezlin: A study of the CMAM_DAS using simulated observations

19:00 Banquet (with cash bar) at Bar Mercurio (SE corner of St. George and Bloor)

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR – Canadian SPARC-IPY

09:00 Mark P. Baldwin INVITED: How will a changing stratosphere affect high-latitude climate?

09:45 Gloria Manney INVITED: Polar Stratopause and Tropopause Evolution and Transport and Implications for Assimilated Analyses

10:30 Coffee break and posters

11:00 Karl Hoppel: Stratospheric and Mesospheric Assimilation using the NOGAPS-ALPHA/NAVDAS forecast model

11:30 Shuzhan Ren: The constraint of data assimilation in the stratosphere and troposphere on mesospheric motions

12:00 Craig Benson: Detection of Antarctic Ice Polar Stratospheric Clouds from AIRS Assimilation

12:30 --- Lunch (90 min.) ---

14:00 Richard L. Collins: Pan-Arctic Study of the Coupled Tropospheric Stratospheric and Mesospheric Circulation

14:30 Kimberly Strong: Investigating Middle Atmospheric Chemistry at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL)

15:00 Kaley A. Walker: The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission Overview and Recent Results

15:30 Coffee break and posters

16:00 Discussion: The Data Assimilation contribution to SPARC IPY activity (1.5 h)

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR – International SPARC-IPY

09:00 Norm McFarlane Overview of SPARC-IPY and Introduction of the Objectives for the Day

09:15 Saroja Polavarapu Summary of CAN SPARC Activities

09:30 Pablo Canziani (in absentia – presented by E. Farahani) Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling Studies at High Southern Latitudes and Antarctic Historic Data Analysis

09:45 Kaoru Sato (in absentia – presented by E. Farahani) Overview of PANSY Project

10:00 Coffee break and posters

10:30 James Drummond INVITED (in absentia – presented by K. Strong) International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA), IPY Activity 196

11:00 Ellie Farahani Overview of Other IPY-related Activities;

Kaley A. Walker: PEARL Outreach

11:15 Discussion on Data Sharing and Future Activities

12:15 Norm McFarlane Presentation of the Workshop Highlights and Action Items

12:30 End of Workshop

POSTERS

Rebecca Batchelor: Measurements of atmospheric trace gases in the Arctic: First light measurements from the new FTIR spectrometer at PEARL

Zeyu Chen : Seasonal variations in the MLT tides in the 120E meridian

Young-Min Cho : Temperature correlation between the lower atmosphere and the MLT region

Tatyana Chshyolkova : Evolution of the Arctic polar vortex during 2004/05 and 2005/06 winter seasons based on the analysis of MetO assimilated fields

Annemarie Fraser : Ground-based Zenith-sky DOAS Measurements of Trace Gases at Eureka, Nunavut

Chongyin Li : Stratospheric Circulation—AO—Mei-yu Anamaly

Craig Long : Assimilation of Multiple Ozone Products into the NCEP Operational Forecast Model

Mark Parrington : Estimating ozone radiative forcing based on satellite observations

Alain Robichaud : Assimilation of MIPAS chemical constituents during a major EPP-NOx event over Antarctic winter 2003

W.E. Ward : Tidal Signatures in the Extended Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model

William Ward : Waves and Coupling Processes at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL)

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