Oral Programme OS1

OS1

Open Session on Ocean Circulation (including Fridtjof Nansen Medal Lecture)
Co-Conveners: Sydney Levitus , Vincenzo Artale 
Oral Programme
 / Tue, 04 May, 08:30–12:00  / 15:30–17:00  / Room D
Poster Programme
 / Attendance Wed, 05 May, 17:30–19:00  / Hall Z

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Room D
Chairperson: Kanzow / Hirschi
08:30–08:45
EGU2010-1106
Aerial and in situ Measurements of Submesoscale Eddies, Fronts, and Filaments
Burkard Baschek and Jeroen Maarten Molemaker
08:45–09:00
EGU2010-5661
Energy dissipation in the equatorial thermocline
Kelvin Richards, Andrei Natarov, and Yuji Kashino
09:00–09:15
EGU2010-8099
An analysis of the formation, propagation and fate of North Brazil Current rings
Kerstin Kirchner, Monika Rhein, Sabine Hüttl-Kabus, and Claus W. Böning
09:15–09:30
EGU2010-12218
Canonical Transfer and Multiscale Energetic Processes in Complex Ocean Circulations
X. San Liang
09:30–10:00
EGU2010-5168
Ocean energetics and the driving mechanisms of the AMOC (solicited)
Remi Tailleux
COFFEE BREAK
10:30–10:45
EGU2010-12787
Impact of eddies and internal waves on the meridional overturning circulation
Joel Hirschi, Adam Blaker, Steve Alderson, Andrew Coward, and Beverly de Cuevas
10:45–11:00
EGU2010-7642
Global overturning circulation and freshwater balances
Lynne Talley
11:00–11:15
EGU2010-4038
Meridional Overturning circulation at 26N and the North Atlantic heat COntent (MONACO)
Neil C. Wells, Joel Hirschi, Vladimir Ivchenko, Brian King, and Simon Josey
11:15–11:30
EGU2010-11888
Large regional contributions of ocean heat content variability, freshwater content and steric height changes
Karina von Schuckmann, Sabrina Speich, Fabienne Gaillard, and Pierre-Yves Le Traon
11:30–11:45
EGU2010-5546
Recent changes in Mediterranean Sea water cycle
Annarita Mariotti
11:45–12:00
EGU2010-8515
The Thermodynamic Equation Of Seawater - 2010 (TEOS-10): implications for observational oceanography and ocean modeling
Trevor McDougall
LUNCH BREAK
15:30–15:45
EGU2010-2861
Warming of the World Ocean, 1955-2009
Sydney Levitus
15:45–16:00
EGU2010-14136
Upper ocean heat content and surface current variability associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
Gary S.E. Lagerloef and Scott Springer
16:00–16:15
Nansen Medal Ceremony

16:15–17:00
EGU2010-15369
Tropical Moored Buoy Arrays To Advance Climate Science: A 30-Year Progress Report (Fridtjof Nansen Medal Lecture)
Michael J. McPhaden