International Pacific Research
Center
Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg.
Room 401, 1680
East-West Road
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Phone: (808)
956-5019
Fax: (808) 956-9425
Bus transportation from/to Pacific Beach Hotel and IPRC will be arranged.
Day 1: Monday 27 February
9:00-9:45
Welcome (McCreary, Erb and Boscolo)
9:45-10:30 Inter-sessional
activity and confirm agenda (Meyers)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
SUSTAINED
OBSERVATIONS: IMPLEMENTATION, COORDINATION AND SCIENCE UPDATE
11:00-12:30 The
Tropical mooring array (McPhaden, Murty and Kuroda)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00
Mozambique Channel array/interocean exchange (de
Ruijter)
14:00-14:30 Argo program
(Ravichandran)
14:30-15:00 XBT network (Thurston and
Meyers)
15:00-15:30 General Discussion on sustained
observations
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
BREAKOUT
SESSION
16:00- 17:30 Breakout
Session: two groups on:
Day 2: Tuesday 28 February
REPORTING
ON THE GROUPS DISCUSSION
9:00-9:30 Data
Management
9:30-10:00 Future of the Panel
OBSERVING
SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS
10:00-10:30
Drifters and other OSSE's (Vecchi)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
XBT lines and other OSSE's (Lee)
11:30-12:30 Seasonal IOD and
ENSO predictions for 2006 (Masumoto and others)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30
INSTANT update/preliminary results (Molcard)
14:30-15:30 A new
study of the Indo-Pacific Warm pool (Weidong Yu)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
Biological and ecological challenges (Hood)
17:00-17:30 Links
with IOTWS (Erb and Meyers)
Day 3: Wednesday 1 March
SCIENCE
TALKS
9:00-9:30 Interannual
to interdecadal variations of Indian Ocean cross-equatorial exchanges in
assimilation products (F. Schott)
9:30-10:00 The SST warming
trend in the Indian Ocean and surface fluxes (Lisan
Yu)
10:00-10:30 Multi-decadal trends in subsurface temperature
(G. Meyers)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
Impacts of the IT on Indo-Pacific currents (J.
McCreary)
11:30-12:00 Oceanic/atmospheric variations with
relevance to IOD and El Nino in Tropical Indian Ocean (Weidong
Yu)
12:00-12:30 Modelling intraseasonal variability (G.
Vecchi)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
MISMO-CIRENE WORKSHOP (Chairs: Masumoto and
Molcard)
13:30-15:15
Introduction of MISMO
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:45 Introduction of CIRENE (R.Molcard)
16:45-17:30 Possible interaction between MISMO and CIRENE
Day 4. Thursday 2 March
MISMO-CIRENE WORKSHOP (cont.)
9:00-10:15 Possible
interaction between MISMO and CIRENE (cont.)
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 General discussion: Future direction of the process studies in the Indian Ocean:
12:00 END OF MEETING
A block reservation of 15 rooms has been made at:
Pacific Beach Hotel
490 Kalakaua
Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815
Telephone: (808) 922.1233
Front Desk
Facsimile: (808) 922.0129
Reservations Facsimile: (808) 922.8061
Email: reservation@hthcorp.com
The negociated price is $140+tax (11.41%) per night per room.
Participants will be responsible for confirming their own reservations by calling reservations at Toll Free 800-367-6060. Please be sure to mention "Indian Ocean" group to confirm the group rate.
Participants can also fax a reservation request using the Housing Form (see attached) to (808) 923-4511 or email: reservation@hthcorp.com. All unsold rooms will be returned to the Hotel Inventory on February 10, 2006 and any reservation requests received thereafter will be subject to availability.
Any cancellations received within 72 hours (3 days) prior to arrival will be subject to a one night room and tax charge.
For any information on the meeting please contact:
Roberta
Boscolo
International CLIVAR
Project Office
Observatoire Oceanologique de Villafranche
Villefranche sur
mer, FRANCE
e-mail: rbos@obs-vlfr.fr
tel. +33 493
763801
Fax +33 493 763834
or the local host:
Julian P.
McCreary, Jr.
IPRC/SOEST
University of Hawaii, POST Bldg. 401
1680
East West Road
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
e-mail:mailto:%20jay@hawaii.edu
phone: (808)
956-2216
fax: (808) 956-9425
Panel Members, AAMP and VACS reps :
Invited Experts and Supporting Agencies reps: