10^th HYCOM Consortium Meeting
November 7-9, 2006
COAPS, Tallahassee, FL

Agenda
(updated 31 October 2006)

This is an information exchange meeting. Do not hesitate to present the nuts and bolts aspects of your work.

Suggested time for the presentation is +/- 15 minutes. In addition to a discussion of your results, it would be most useful to include in your presentation a status report as well as your vision for the following year.

Tuesday 7 November 2006

8:00am	Pick-up name tags and registration
8:45am	Welcome
Overview
9:00am	HYCOM NOPP GODAE present status	E. Chassignet
9:20am	HYCOM and GODAE in relation to Navy ocean prediction	H. Hurlburt
9:40am	Role of HYCOM in NCEP's modeling plans	D.B. Rao
Navy and NOAA Global and Basin-Scale HYCOM Systems
10:00am	NCEP operational model: improvements and plans	C. Lozano
10:20am	Evaluation of the real time ocean forecast system Atlantic for NOAA's ocean prediction center	R. Daniels
10:40am	Break and Posters
11:20am	An update on the 1/12° global HYCOM effort	J. Metzger
11:40am	North Atlantic and global HYCOM evaluation	J. Shriver
12:00pm	Lunch
Data Assimilation
1:00pm	The Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation (NCODA) in HYCOM	O.M. Smedstad
1:20pm	Verification of NCODA assimilation in the HYCOM 1/25° Gulf of Mexico domain	J. Cummings
1:40pm	Evaluation of the NCODA assimilation as initial/boundary conditions for Hurricane Ivan and West Florida Shelf simulations	G. Halliwell
2:00pm	The multivariate properties of the Ensemble Optimal Interpolation in the Gulf of Mexico	F. Counillon
2:20pm	Gulf of Mexico data assimilation comparison exercise	E. Chassignet
2:40pm	Data assimilation in HYCOM using the SEEK filter: recent advances	P. Brasseur
3:00pm	Break and Group Photo
3:40pm	On a 3D variational assimilation scheme in hybrid coordinates	C. Lozano
4:00pm	Constrained Data Assimilation	C. Thacker
4:20pm	Data Assimilation Plenary Discussion
4:40pm	HYCOM data service	A. Srinivasan
5:00pm	Data Serving Plenary Discussion
6:00pm	Reception at the University Center Club

Wednesday 8 November 2006

Basin-scale/Regional/Coastal Simulations
9:00am	High resolution nested modeling in the Gulf of Mexico	P. Hogan
9:20am	Loop current eddy interactions using HYCOM	K.H. Hyun
9:40am	Upper-ocean response to Hurricane Ivan in a 1/25° nested Gulf of Mexico HYCOM	P. Thoppil
10:00am	A West Florida Shelf ROMS model nested into HYCOM	A. Barth
10:20am	Inter-annual simulations with SoFLA-HYCOM and comparison to in-situ data	G. Peng
10:40am	Break and Posters
11:20am	On the transport of river induced low salinity waters on the SoFLA-HYCOM domain	R. Schiller
11:40am	HYCOM/QUODDY nested baroclinic nowcast/forecast system for the South Atlantic Bight	T. Shay
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Nesting regional and coastal models in global HYCOM	S. deRada
1:30pm	A regional Southern California model nested within global HYCOM	P. May
1:50pm	Biophysical modeling of the California Current System	M.J. Olascoaga
2:10pm	On the monthly and interannual variability of the eastern Pacific warm pool	L. Zamudio
2:30pm	A Cariaco basin ROMS model nested in HYCOM	A. Alvera-Azcarte
2:50pm	The influence of mesoscale activity on the primary production in the Norwegian Sea	C.Hasen
3:10pm	Break and Posters
3:40pm	Modeling the shelf recruitment of Calanus finmarchicus on the west coast of Norway	A. Samuelsen
4:00pm	Sensitivity to vertical resolution in hybrid ocean models	C. Narayanan
4:20pm	Outflow representation in HYCOM	X. Xu
4:40pm	1/3 degree interannual north Atlantic simulations	Z. Garraffo
5:00pm	Modeling flows around islands: the Hawaiian experience	K. Richards

Thursday 9 November 2006

Surface Boundary Conditions
9:00am	Impacts of ocean currents and waves on the wind stress drag coefficient: relevance to HYCOM	B. Kara
9:20am	Sensitivity of surface turbulent fluxes to errors in bulk formula inputs	M. Bourassa
9:40am	Hybrid wind stress anomalies and their impacts on the global HYCOM simulations	B. Kara
HYCOM Development
10:00am	New features of HYCOM	A. Wallcraft
10:20am	Break and Posters
11:00am	The quest for the perfect vertical grid generator	R. Bleck
11:20am	Embedding a forward model of barotropic and baroclinic tides into HYCOM	B. Arbic
11:40am	A proposed new approach to HYCOM's thermobaricity problem	R. Bleck
12:00pm	Lunch
Afternoon reserved for follow-up discussions
POSTERS
Dissipation of midocean mesoscale eddies: Inferences from satellite altimetry data, in-situ data, and idealized models		B. Arbic
Introduction of inequality constraints into a Reduced Order Kalman Filter for data assimilation into ocean circulation models		C. Lauvernet
Branches, bifurcations, and retroflections over the Tail of the Grand Banks		M. McCartney
Persistent Transport Barrier on the West Florida Shelf		M.J. Olascoaga
Modeling the waters around Greenland		T. Rasmussen
Abyssal pathways and processes in the Indian Ocean from a 1/12 Global HYCOM Simulations		A. Srinivasan