Sessions

Chair: Xiao Hua Wang

Description: This session is related to ocean surface waves and their dynamics, modelling, applications and interaction with currents in coastal and shelf seas. Since this an active area of research? both in coastal engineering and physical oceanography at a wide range of scales, the session will aim to provide an overview of all those processes, from surface boundary layer to bottom sediment transport. Works merging observations and modelling are encouraged.

Chairs: Jinyu Sheng and Jarle Brerntsen

Description: The circulation and dynamics in shelf seas are governed by the forcing  processes arising from wind stress, tides, flow-topography interaction and remote current intrusions. This session invites presentations on all aspects of shelf sea circulation and dynamics. Contributions based on numerical, theoretical and observational studies are welcomed.

Chairs: Leo Oey, Youyu Lu, Jianping Gan

Description: This session is related to ocean surface waves and their dynamics, modelling, applications and interaction with currents in coastal and shelf seas. Since this an active area of research? both in coastal engineering and physical oceanography at a wide range of scales, the session will aim to provide an overview of all those processes, from surface boundary layer to bottom sediment transport. Works merging observations and modelling are encouraged.

Chair: Tal Ezer

Description: Successful simulations and accurate predictions of climate variability require a thorough understanding of the underlying dynamics of the primary modes that produce the variability. These influential modes include the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole, Pacific decadal Variability, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and many others. Theoreticians, diagnosticians, modelers and observationalists are invited to this session to share their new findings of the dynamical processes involved in the generation and evolution of these climate modes and the strategies for modeling them.

Chair: Yasumasa Miyazawa

Description: Reliable modelling and prediction of extreme marine events are essential in order to quantify the risk to personnel and to measure the economic viability of activities such as marine transportation, oil and gas exploration and coastal infrastructure. Extreme marine events are caused by a variety of factors that vary spatially in the global ocean. This session seeks presentations on various aspects of analysis, numerical modeling and prediction of extreme marine events such as extreme sea levels, extreme ocean waves and extreme ocean currents.  Topics may also include development and applications of new tools and methodologies for the assessment of changes in the frequency and severity of extreme marine events under greenhouse warming scenarios

Chairs: Katja Fennel and Danling Tang

Description: We welcome contributions of model studies on nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics, biogeochemical processes, carbon cycling, life history, population dynamics in marine environments.

Chair: Kevin Lamb

Description: To be determined

Chairs: Richard Greatbatch, Huijie Xue, Jia Wang

Description: The session seeks presentations that test or demonstrate various aspects of numerical ocean modeling. Topics may include new schemes that reduce numerical errors or improve efficiency of numerical codes, comparisons of different model types or different grids, nesting or parallelization approaches, etc. Techniques for improving model forcing, boundary conditions or data assimilation methodologies may be of interest as well.