WOCE Pacific Workshop

CONTENT

• Introduction

• Abstracts

• Working Groups

• Computer Network

• Data Sharing

• Workshop Organizing Committee

• Tentative Daily Agenda

• Conference Hotel

• Registration Form

• Deadline

TheWorld Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) announces a workshop on the large-scale physical oceanography of the Pacific Ocean to be held August 19-23, 1996 in Newport Beach, California. The purpose of the workshop is to facilitate progress toward the scientific and technical goals of WOCE for the Pacific basin. It will bring together scientists who are working on various aspects of in situ and satellite data sets and models and encourage their interaction. Synthesis of all of the elements of the data sets and models will be encouraged to study various aspects of the general circulation.

One objective of the meeting will be to focus work towards joint publications. The Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) has indicated an interest in publishing a special issue to assemble some of these results.

A second objective is to focus assembly of the Pacific WOCE data set and extant model results prior to the workshop, for use by Pacific WOCE investigators. Progress toward an atlas of the Pacific Ocean, as well as computer-based databases, will be a result of the workshop.

The meeting will be centered around working groups focused on both purely scientific and mixed scientific/technical interests. Each working group will report on work in progress and make plans for future studies. Plenary sessions will provide general discussion of progress and issues raised by the working groups. Plenary sessions will also include a small number of invited talks reviewing primary scientific topics for Pacific WOCE with the goal of stimulating work both at the workshop and afterward. At this time, the following have agreed to give these talks:

• Dudley Chelton, Oregon State University, USA

• Russ Davis, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

• Lee-Lueng Fu, Jet Propulsion Lab, USA

• Kimio Hanawa, Tohoku University, Japan

• Harley Hurlburt, Stennis Space Center, USA

• William Jenkins, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

• Jim McWilliams, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

• Peter Niiler, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

• Joseph Reid, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

• Bruce Warren, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

• Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

ABSTRACTS

In order to facilitate discussion and enable attendees to identify potential collaborators, meeting attendees (and interested others) are requested to electronically submit a one page abstract summarizing their current research. More than one abstract is acceptable if the topics are significantly different. These will be consolidated into a book and distributed to each attendee at registration. A separate booklet will be provided at the end of the meeting with a complete listing of attendees and their addresses and phone numbers.

WORKING GROUPS

1. Heat and freshwater transports, surface fluxes -- estimates for the best-sampled sections and for the rest of the Pacific.

2. General ocean circulation, including western boundary currents, deep passage and deep western boundary current flows, intermediate and deep circulation in the tropics, eddy energy distributions.

3. Ventilation and mixing of the Pacific water masses.

4. Upper ocean circulation and heat content and their variability, relation to forcing; air-sea fluxes and Ekman layers.

5. Climatology -- synthesis of all data to produce an atlas of the present and historical state of the Pacific Ocean, including establishing absolute velocities for the mean circulation from direct current measurements. Data uniformity/mapping for specific types of data.

6. Data synthesis by assimilation -- aspects of dynamically consistent combinations of data and models.

7. Model-data and model-model comparisons--how well do they match, by what criteria are they to be judged, including which statistics should be compared.

If possible, we would like to identify working group topics, their members and special requirements prior to the meeting. Members of such working groups are encouraged to initiate communications and possibly joint work prior to the workshop so the time at the workshop is used efficiently.

COMPUTER NETWORK

In addition to the normal meeting requirements of an auditorium and working group rooms, the workshop will have a local 10Mbit Ethernet connected to the Internet at T1 (1.5Mbit) speed or slower. Connections to the local Ethernet will probably be of the 10Base2 and/or AUI variety. A list of workshop provided computing/printing facilities is not available at this time. Some participants will be bringing their own workstations. Software for display and processing can possibly be provided if requirements are known in advance.

An ftp site at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for data drop-off prior to the workshop will be provided.

All guest rooms have two phone lines and computer access (but not Ethernet) capability.

DATA SHARING

Attendees are requested to provide information on the data sets and model results that they will make available at the meeting. While we hope to be able to provide access to a large number of WOCE Pacific basin data sets, attendees are reminded that many of these are still held by principal investigators (PIs) and have been provided by them especially for this meeting. It is requested that all attendees abide by the data sharing policy laid down by the international WOCE Science Steering Group. This states that data shall not be distributed unless specifically approved by the originating PI. While originating investigators are strongly encouraged to share their data as soon as possible, investigators receiving such data sets shall not publish any paper during the publication rights period based predominantly on the received data, should co-author results with the originating investigator, and should not redistribute the data.

Pacific WOCE Workshop Organizing Committee
Lynne Talley	Scripps Institution of Oceanography e-mail: ltalley@ucsd.edu
Shiro Imawaki	Kyushu University (Japan) e-mail: imawaki@riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp
William Jenkins	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA) e-mail: wjenkins@whoi.edu
Jeffrey Paduan	Naval Postgraduate School (USA) e-mail: paduan@oc.nps.navy.mil
Steve Rintoul	CSIRO (Australia) e-mail: rintoul@drought.ml.csiro.au
Stephen Riser	University of Washington (USA) e-mail: riser@ocean.washington.edu
Detlef Stammer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) e-mail: detlef@lagoon.mit.edu
Nobuo Suginohara	University of Tokyo (Japan) e-mail: nobuo@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Andrew Weaver	University of Victoria (Canada) e-mail: weaver@ocean.seos.uvic.ca
Eric Lindstrom Ex officio from U.S. WOCE	U.S. WOCE Program Scientist (USA) e-mail: elindstrom@ocean.nos.noaa.gov

Organizing Office

U.S. WOCE Office
Ms. Sasha Walters
305 Arguello Drive
College Station, TX 77840

phone: (409) 845-1443
fax: (409) 845-0888
e-mail: swalters@astra.tamu.edu or uswoce@astra.tamu.edu

TENTATIVE DAILY AGENDA
Sunday -- August 18, 1996
1600	Registration (1600-1800)
1800	Meet and Greet {Cash Bar} (1800-1930)
Monday -- August 19, 1996
0730	Registration (0730-0830)
0830	Welcome, Introduction, Discuss Program and Logistics, Network, Resources
0930	Invited Speaker
1015	Break
1030	Working Groups (Scientific)
1200	Lunch
1300	Data Bases and Models - Computer Presentations
1400	Working groups (Technical)
1600	Break
1615	Invited Speaker
1700	Plenary Discussion (Working Groups, 5-10 minutes each)
1800	Adjourn
Tuesday -- August 20, 1996
0830	Announcements
0845	Invited Speaker
0930	Working Groups (Scientific)
1145	Invited Speaker
1230	Lunch
1400	Working Groups (Technical)
1600	Break
1615	Invited Speaker
1700	Plenary Discussion (Working Groups)
1800	Break
2000	Invited Speaker
Wednesday -- August 21, 1996
0830	Announcements
0845	Invited Speaker
0930	Working Groups (Scientific)
1145	Invited Speaker
1230	Lunch
1400	Working Groups (Technical)
1600	Break
1615	Invited Speaker
1700	Plenary Discussion (Working Groups)
1800	Adjourn
Thursday, August 22, 1996
0830	Announcements
0845	Invited Speaker
0930	Working Groups (Scientific)
1145	Invited Speaker
1230	Lunch
1400	Working Groups (Technical)
1600	Break
1615	Invited Speaker
1700	Plenary Discussion (Working Groups)
1800	Break
1900	Conference Dinner ($40 in advance; $50 on site)
Friday, August 23, 1996
0830	Announcements
0845	Working Groups (Scientific) Report Preparation
1015	Break
1030	Working Groups (Technical) Report Preparation
1200	Lunch
1300	Plenary (Working Group Reports, Plans for Future Work, Summary)
1600	Meeting Adjourns

CONFERENCE HOTEL

Hyatt Newporter
1107 Jamboree Road
Newport Beach, CA 92660 USA
Phone: 714-729-1234
Fax: 714-644-1552

Single Rates: $92.73 plus 10% tax ($102 inclusive)
Double Rates: $92.73 plus 10% tax ($102 inclusive)
These special rates are available three days before and after meeting.

Hotel Check In Time: 4:00 p.m.
Hotel Check Out Time: 12:00 noon

Self Parking: Overnight Guests = $3/car; Daily Guests = $2/car
Valet Parking: Overnight Guests = $7/car; Daily Guests = $4/car

Hotel is five miles from Orange County/John Wayne Airport (10 minutes traveling time). Complimentary shuttle is provided by the hotel. Los Angeles International Airport is 40 miles away (one hour traveling time). Airport shuttles are available at a nominal charge. Hotel has tennis courts, three pools, and nine-hole executive golf course on property. Numerous other facilities, services, and recreational activities available.

REGISTRATION FORM

Name: ______________________________________________________________

Address: ____________________________________________________________

Phone: ______________________________________________________________

Fax: ________________________________________________________________

E-mail: ______________________________________________________________

List topics ONLY if you did not respond to the first announcement with your preference of working groups.

Working group topics of interest from items 1 to 4: ________

Working group topics of interest from items 5 to 7: ________

Comments:

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PLEASE RETURN FORM, CHECK AND ABSTRACT TO THE U.S. WOCE OFFICE BY MAIL, E-MAIL, OR FAX BY MAY 10, 1996.

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