Meeting Announcement
Dear Colleague,The LAPCOD 2002 meeting will take place in Key Largo, Florida during December 12-16, 2002 (Thursday-Monday).
The purpose of the LAPCOD meeting is to conduct a review of Lagrangian data, present new results on nonlinear aspects of Lagrangian dynamics, and to accelerate future development in predictability and multi-disciplinary aspects, by bringing together different research communities and different analysis. Workshop invitees will include experimentalists and theoreticians involved in data analysis and model development, as well as predictability experts (not necessarily all oceanographers), biologists, meteorologists and ecologists using Lagrangian instruments and approaches. Lagrangian predictability is of great importance for practical application in transport and environmental problems, and we expect that the workshop will facilitate its development through exchanges and collaborations.
We anticipate a total workshop attendance of 50-100 people. The workshop will be structured to encourage collaborations and exchanges of ideas, with 12 minute discussion talks in the morning and poster sessions in the afternoon. Participants are encouraged to present both a short talk and a poster.
Thu: Observations and biological applications. Fri: Theory of dispersion/transport/mixing. Sat: A day of interactions via a group social activity. Sun: Lagrangian instruments and data analysis techniques. Mon: Assimilation of Lagrangian data and predictability of trajectories. We would also appreciate some talks/posters on a historical review of Lagrangian instruments, turbulent mixing, nonlinear analysis and what have we learned about the mean ocean state and its variability from measurements. If there is sufficient interest, we would like to produce an edited book from this meeting. Presently, we have four proposed chapters and we would love to hear from you, before the meeting, if you would like to submit a chapter.
Feel free to send this announcement to colleagues.
Sincerely,
Annalisa Griffa RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche (CNR)/ IOF, La Spezia, Italy Arthur Mariano RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA Tamay Ozgokmen RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA Enrico Zambianchi Istituto di Meteorologia e Oceanografia, Italy