Meetings and Events

KESS Workshop November 6-8, 2006

Goal: Foster collaborations for future KESS analysis and analysis proposals.

Measure of Success: List of paper topics with identified lead and collaborators and 3-4 (?) analysis proposal themes with identified team members.

Agenda

KESS Observations (10 minute talks)

• Satellite Sea Surface Height/Floats — Bo Qiu
• CPIES Array — URI
• Moored Profiler and current meter mooring data — Luc Rainville
• KEO — Meghan Cronin
• Atmospheric Soundings — Kohei Kai
• ADCP/CTD during KESS deployment/mid-experiment/recovery — Kathy Donohue

Analysis Soup

• Dynamic state transitions of the KESS system: Causes and their impact on the upper-ocean water mass structures — Bo Qiu
• Subtropical Mode Water formations observations and model perspectives — Luc Rainville
• Upper-ocean Heat Budget at KEO — Meghan Cronin
• On the relationships between air-sea interactions and the regional weather at the KEO — Nick Bond
• Recirculation Gyre south of the Kuroshio Extension during May to November 2004 as measured by profiling floats — Peter Hacker
• Stability Properties of the Kuroshio Abyssal Jet — Stephanie Waterman
• Recirculation Gyres around the Kuroshio Extension — Steve Jayne
• Rossby wave radiation for an eastward jet and recirculation gyres — Genta Mizuta
• Sea Surface Height from PIES and satellite altimetry — Randy Watts
• Shallow and deep current variability in the Kuroshio Extension — Karen Tracey
• Barotropic Rossby waves propagating through the KESS regions as seen in current meter data — Nelson Hogg
• Barotropic ocean response to the atmospheric forcing in the Pacific Ocean deduced from bottom pressure measurements — Jae-Hun Park
• Perspectives from the POP model — Julie McClean
• Deep temperature variability in the Kuroshio Extension — Stu Bishop

Data Management

• CLIVAR activities and feedback — Meghan Cronin
• KESS website and data policy/archiving — Steve Jayne
• EOS
• Outline and possible assignments — K. Donohue
• Special Issue (GRL)?