Programme Groups

OS – Ocean Sciences

OS1

Open Session on Ocean Circulation (including Fridtjof Nansen Medal Lecture)
Convener: Torsten Kanzow | Co-Conveners: Joel Hirschi , Sydney Levitus , Vincenzo Artale , Michel Rixen

OS2

Open Session on Coastal and Shelf Seas
Convener: Johan van der Molen | Co-Convener: Huib de Swart

OS3

Understanding biogeochemical-physical interactions (SOLAS/IMBER) and physical oceanographic controls on marine species
Convener: Baris Salihoglu | Co-Conveners: Véronique Garçon , Anthony Kettle , Sally Thorpe

OS4

Operational Oceanography: Skill Assessment, Error Analysis and Service Delivery (including Outstanding Young Scientist Lecture)
Convener: Michel Rixen | Co-Conveners: Eric Dombrowsky , Richard Allard , Emanuel Coelho

OS5

The North Atlantic and its role for climate, sea level change, and anthropogenic carbon
Convener: Monika Rhein | Co-Convener: Richard Greatbatch

OS6

Changes in Arctic sea ice and ocean: observations, simulations and outlook
Convener: Ursula Schauer | Co-Conveners: Wieslaw Maslowski , Genrikh Alekseev

OS7

The Southern Ocean and its Role in the Global Climate System
Convener: Hartmut Hellmer | Co-Conveners: Young Hyang Park , Michael Meredith

OS8/HS13.8

ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - calibration and validation activities and first results (co-organized)
Convener: Susanne Mecklenburg | Co-Conveners: Yann Kerr , Catherine Bouzinac , Steven Delwart , Jordi Font

OS10/CL2.16

Global and regional sea level changes and their impacts in coastal oceans (co-organized)
Convener: Anny Cazenave | Co-Conveners: Jens Schröter , Nicole Lenôtre , Philip Woodworth , Svetlana Jevrejeva , Hans von Storch , Aslak Grinsted

OS11

Ocean Science in Support of Marine Renewable Energy
Convener: Daniel Conley | Co-Convener: Phil Hosegood

OS12/AS1.7

Gravity Waves (co-organized)
Convener: Riwal Plougonven | Co-Conveners: Ulrich Achatz , Erich Becker , Chantal Staquet

NP2.3/AS4.15/CL4.5/OS13

Nonlinear Dynamics of the Atmosphere, Ocean and the Climate System (co-organized)
Convener: Stefano Pierini | Co-Conveners: Eric Simonnet , Klaus Dethloff , Christoph C. Raible

OS14

Small Scale Processes and their parameterisation
Convener: Achim Wirth | Co-Convener: Lars Umlauf

OS15

European Collaboration for Implementation of Marine Research on Cores (ESF EUROCORES Programmes)
Convener: Jean Pierre Henriet | Co-Conveners: Gert J. De Lange , Gilbert Camoin , Paola Campus

OS16

Ocean Margin Processes
Convener: Georgy Shapiro | Co-Convener: Rodney Forster

OS17

Dense water cascades and overflows: physical, geological, chemical and biological related processes
Convener: Sandro Carniel | Co-Convener: Pere Puig

OS18

Straits and Adjacent Seas
Convener: Sukru Besiktepe | Co-Convener: Ewa Jarosz

HS3.4/OS19

Lakes and inland seas (co-organized)
Convener: Peter Zavialov | Co-Convener: Jana Friedrich

OS20

Ocean modelling: developments, applications, and observation-based assessment
Convener: David Ham | Co-Conveners: Anne Marie Treguier , Ekatarina Popova , Rich Signell , Sergey Danilov , Thierry Penduff , Julie McClean

OS21

Recent developments in tsunami modeling and forecasting
Convener: Joern Behrens | Co-Conveners: Costas Synolakis , Carl Bonnevie Harbitz

GI3

Towards establishing permanent infrastructures for ocean observations: instrumentation, measurement strategies and methods for ocean observatories (co-listed)
Convener: Christoph Waldmann | Co-Conveners: Ingrid Puillat-Felix , Laura Beranzoli , Ralph Stephen

ESSI5

Earth System Modeling: Strategies and Software (co-listed)
Convener: Reinhard Budich | Co-Convener: René Redler

ESSI4

Informatics in Oceanography (co-listed)
Convener: Giuseppe M.R. Manzella | Co-Conveners: Sissy Iona , Dick M. A. Schaap

NP2.1/CL2.19

ENSO: Dynamics, Predictability and Modelling (co-listed)
Convener: Eric Guilyardi | Co-Conveners: Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda , A. Fedorov , Andrew Wittenberg

NP6.8

Turbulence and Waves in Stratified and Rotating Fluids (co-listed)
Convener: Yuli D. Chashechkin | Co-Convener: Konrad Bajer

NP7.1

Non linear waves, instabilities, wave-flow interactions and coastal hydromorphology (co-listed)
Convener: Vincent Rey | Co-Conveners: Lev Ostrovsky , M. Stive

Satellite Gravimetry: GRACE, GOCE and Future Missions (co-listed)
Convener: Thomas Gruber | Co-Conveners: Richard Biancale , Frank Flechtner , Torsten Mayer-Gurr

CL2.1

Climate of the Polar Regions (co-listed)
Convener: Peter Wadhams | Co-Conveners: Steve Piacsek , Kate Thatcher

AS2.2

Air-Sea Interactions (General Session) (co-listed)
Convener: Vladimir K. Makin | Co-Convener: Neil C. Wells

AS2.3

Basic Studies on Turbulence in Atmospheric and Oceanic Boundary Layers (General Session) (co-listed)
Convener: Arakel Petrosyan | Co-Convener: Stephen Belcher

NP7.4

Wind-wave-current interactions, internal waves in stratified media and ocean mixing (co-listed)
Convener: Philppe Fraunie | Co-Conveners: Leo Maas , Margarita Diez , Jose M. Redondo , Vincent Rey