Open Session on Ocean Circulation (including Fridtjof Nansen Medal Lecture) Convener: Torsten Kanzow
Co-Conveners: Joel Hirschi , Sydney Levitus , Vincenzo Artale , Michel Rixen
Tuesday, 04 May 2010 Room: D Chairperson: Kanzow / Hirschi
08:30–08:45
EGU2010-1106 Burkard Baschek and Jeroen Maarten Molemaker Aerial and in situ Measurements of Submesoscale Eddies, Fronts, and Filaments
08:45–09:00
EGU2010-5661 Kelvin Richards, Andrei Natarov, and Yuji Kashino Energy dissipation in the equatorial thermocline
09:00–09:15
EGU2010-8099 Kerstin Kirchner, Monika Rhein, Sabine Hüttl-Kabus, and Claus W. Böning An analysis of the formation, propagation and fate of North Brazil Current rings
09:15–09:30
EGU2010-12218 X. San Liang Canonical Transfer and Multiscale Energetic Processes in Complex Ocean Circulations
09:30–10:00
EGU2010-5168 Remi Tailleux Ocean energetics and the driving mechanisms of the AMOC (solicited)
COFFEE BREAK
Chairperson: Levitus / Rixen
10:30–10:45
EGU2010-12787 Joel Hirschi, Adam Blaker, Steve Alderson, Andrew Coward, and Beverly de Cuevas Impact of eddies and internal waves on the meridional overturning circulation
10:45–11:00
EGU2010-7642 Lynne Talley Global overturning circulation and freshwater balances
11:00–11:15
EGU2010-4038 Neil C. Wells, Joel Hirschi, Vladimir Ivchenko, Brian King, and Simon Josey Meridional Overturning circulation at 26N and the North Atlantic heat COntent (MONACO)
11:15–11:30
EGU2010-11888 Karina von Schuckmann, Sabrina Speich, Fabienne Gaillard, and Pierre-Yves Le Traon Large regional contributions of ocean heat content variability, freshwater content and steric height changes
11:30–11:45
EGU2010-5546 Annarita Mariotti Recent changes in Mediterranean Sea water cycle
11:45–12:00
EGU2010-8515 Trevor McDougall The Thermodynamic Equation Of Seawater - 2010 (TEOS-10): implications for observational oceanography and ocean modeling
LUNCH BREAK
Chairperson: Kanzow / Artale-Vicenso
15:30–15:45
EGU2010-2861 Sydney Levitus Warming of the World Ocean, 1955-2009
15:45–16:00
EGU2010-14136 Gary S.E. Lagerloef and Scott Springer Upper ocean heat content and surface current variability associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
16:00–16:15
Nansen Medal Ceremony
16:15–17:00
EGU2010-15369 Michael J. McPhaden Tropical Moored Buoy Arrays To Advance Climate Science: A 30-Year Progress Report (Fridtjof Nansen Medal Lecture)