Agenda for the DOME Workshop

Thursday, February 22, 2001: Observations and Physics

  09:00 - 09:10   T. Özgökmen   Welcoming comments
  09:10 - 09:50   J. Price   Review talk: Observations and physics of overflows
  09:50 - 10:20   P. Killworth   On the rate of descent of overflows
A brief overview of MOMBLE (MOMA with a bottom boundary layer)
  10:20 - 10:40   Coffee break 
  10:40 - 11:00   J. Girton   Direct measurements of transport, entrainment and energetics in the initial descent of the Denmark Strait Overflow
  11:00 - 11:20   T. Özgökmen   A numerical study of two-dimensional turbulent gravity currents descending a slope
  11:20 - 11:40   S. Legg   Nonhydrostatic simulations of entrainment in overflows
  11:40 - 12:00   D. Holland   Conservation laws at abrupt mixing fronts in shallow water flows
  12:00 - 13:20   Lunch break 
  13:20 - 13:40   D. Olson   Outflow conditions at three Indian Ocean inflows: Indonesian Throughflow, Persian Gulf outfall and the Red Sea
  13:40 - 14:00   C. Rooth   A mean field interaction view on the problem of multiple source competition in the overflow ventilation of a finite basin
  14:00 - 14:20   J. Wang   A theoretical, two-layer, reduced-gravity model for descending dense water flow on continental shelves/slopes
  14:20 - 14:40   Coffee break 
  14:40 - 17:30   R. Hallberg
(moderator)  
Discussions for the DOME idealized experiments
- General DOME strategies
- Strategy for group publications
- Ground rules for use of data etc.

Group dinner in South Beach? (to be arranged)


Friday, February 23, 2001: Numerical Representation of Overflows in OGCMs

  09:00 - 09:40   R. Hallberg   An overview of the behavior of numerical representations of overflows and various existing approaches
  09:40 - 10:00   J. Dengg   Effects of Denmark Straits Overflow on the large-scale circulation in a numerical model of the North Atlantic
  10:00 - 10:20   T. Ezer   Overflow and bottom boundary layer simulations with a generalized sigma coordinate ocean model
  10:20 - 10:40   Coffee break 
  10:40 - 11:00   M. Hecht   Evaluation of the Beckmann-Doescher BBL for the Community Climate System Model
  11:00 - 11:20   G. Nurser   Upstream pressure gradients in a model of the bottom boundary layer
  11:20 - 11:40   W. Anderson   DOME experiments with the Poseidon ocean general circulation model
  11:40 - 12:00   E. Chassignet   Entrainment parameterization in MICOM: application to the Mediterranean and the Denmark Straits overflows
  12:00 - 13:00   Lunch break 
  13:00 - 13:20   J. Takahashi   On the dense water transportation due to mesoscale eddy
  13:20 - 13:30   B. Wingate   Nonlinearly dispersive Euler-Poincare equations for turbulence modeling
  13:30 - 15:30   Moderator   Continue discussions; revisit idealized exps.; suggested modifications, other
  15:30 - 16:00   Coffee break 
  16:00 - 17:30   Moderator   - Specific outflow intercomparisons (Med, Denmark, other)
- Global intercomparisons

Happy Hour in RSMAS Commons


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