AGENDA:
1) Participation in the Conference to be held in Oman in March 2009
2) Resolving problems with NOGAPS and NCEP-NCAR wind products and moving forward in the context of our project goals
3) Manuscripts
4) Sept. 2008 Meeting at NRL, Stennis Space Centre
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS:
1) Participation in the Conference held in Oman in March 2009 is encouraged (http://www.squ.edu.om/tropicalcyclones). We will have partial support from the ministries for accommodations, so individual travel expenses will only be for the airfare which was quoted (as of June 27) at around $1200.00. Participants will have to submit an extended abstract (before August 30, 2007) and paper and if there are at least 4, there will be a special session for this topic.
2) Motivated by the initial NOGAPS trend plots made by John Fasullo, discussions about forcing (wind) products were conducted in an effort to focus the research towards achieving the goals set forth in the hypothesis. Given that NOGAPS (available only from 2000) is not reproducing the desired trends in Goes, et al. Paper, which was the foundation of the proposal, the group discussed the usage of other products to force the ocean model. NOGAPS could be used for modeling ocean response to storms and meso-scale features of interest in the area that could lead to procure new funding, but does not seem to suit the purposes of this research.
- NCEP: Considerations to run the ocean model from 1995 (2 years spin up) with NCEP atmospheric forcing were discussed. The simulation will only be relaxed to WOA surface salinity and MCSST surface temperature in an effort to attribute the model response mainly to the atmospheric forcing. This will allow us to have a base simulation using the data from which the paper is based.
- ERA 40: Reanalysis product from ECMWF is not a viable choice because it ends in 2001 and forcing data are needed through at least 2005.
- SeaWINDS: Is a QuickScat-derived product suggested by Fei Chai which covers the period (1997 to 2004) of interest and into the present. John Fasullo will do trend analysis of this product to assess their feasibility. The question that remains is "What to use for heat fluxes if these winds are suitable?"
3) Suggested manuscripts will be exchanged by email with members of the project for potential publication and/or presentation in OMAN.
4) There will be a "mini" project meeting at Stennis Space Center, MS on September 9 and 10, 2008. This allows travel days on the 8th and the 11th or 12th and possibly a weekend in New Orleans, but please allow at least both full days (9th and 10th) as there will be plenty to discuss. I would suggest informal presentations on Tuesday as we did in Maine to start the meeting. Some Logistics:
- Airports close to Stennis are: New Orleans (MSY) and Gulfport (GPT). They are both about 1hr away, but MSY is a much bigger and better served airport.
- Accomodations can be done at the B&B 2 blocks from my house. I get a healthy discount and it's a nice, quite, and convenient place to stay, including being able to ride to Stennis together. I can arrange the reservations once everyone confirms. Here is the place: http://www.woodridgebb.com/.
- I plant to host dinner at my house (short walk from the B&B) one of those nights. New Orleans is also a nice place to visit and the food is great. (~45 minute drive from Slidell).
- For anyone that is not a U.S. Citizen, we need to do some paperwork to approve their visit to SSC way in advance, so please email me directly as soon as possible so we can start the paperwork.
1 comment:
I am Purushottam Verlekar, student of
SP Chowgule college Goa. I am doing my FY BSc. your work on INDIAN OCEAN is appreciable. I can also provide you the information on changes taking place in arabian sea off goan coast.
Thank You.
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