CLIVAR/GOOS Indian Ocean Panel 3rd Session

Honolulu, Hawaii USA, 27 February - 2 March 2006


1. Location of Venue

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.


2. Preliminary Agenda

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:

  • Data Management (chairs: Ravichandran and Hacker)
  • Future of the Panel: how to promote and implement IO Plan? What IOP should do to acquire support from science/GOOS infrastructure (CLIVAR, GOOS, others) and from governments in order to implement plan? What sponsors need to do to help? How do we present to sponsors, i.e. events, showcase? Report to SSG-14 (chairs: Meyer and Erb)

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

  • Atmospheric observations (K.Yoneyama)
  • Ocean observations (Y.Masumoto)
  • MISMO/PMEL activities collaboration (Y.Masumoto and M. McPhaden)

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:

  • Time-scale, place, variables to measure
  • Any specific phenomena?

12:00 END OF MEETING


3. Accomodations

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.


4. Contacts

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


5. List of Attendees

Panel Members, AAMP and VACS reps :

  • Peter Hacker, U. Hawaii USA
  • Yoshifumi Kuroda, JAMSTEC JAPAN
  • Yukio Masumoto, JAMSTEC JAPAN
  • Jay McCreary, U. Hawaii USA
  • Michael McPhaden, NOAA-PMEL USA
  • Gary Meyers, CSIRO AUSTRALIA
  • Robert Molcard, LOCEAN FRANCE
  • M. Ravichandranm INCOIS INDIA
  • Fritz Schott, IfM-GEOMAR GERMANY
  • Lisan Yu, WHOI USA

Invited Experts and Supporting Agencies reps:

  • Gabriel Vecchi, NOAA USA
  • Tong Lee, NASA USA
  • Weidong Yu, FIO CHINA
  • Raleigh Hood, UMCES USA
  • Kunio Yoneyama, JAMSTEC JAPAN
  • VSN Murthy, NIO INDIA
  • Sidney Thurston, NOAA USA
  • Keisuke Mizuno, JAMSTEC JAPAN
  • Roberta Boscolo, OOV FRANCE (ICPO rep)
  • Will de Ruijter (LOCO rep)
  • Bill Erb (IOC rep)