Climate Observing System for the Tropical Atlantic

May 4 - 7, 1999


Day 1: Tuesday May 4, PM

01:00 to 5:30 pm (RSMAS Auditorioum)

01:00 PM: Introduction (S. L. Garzoli)

01:30 PM: Role of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean in Climate (A. Busalacci)

02:00 PM Historical Perspective (Jaques Merle)

02:30 PM Hurricanes in the Tropical Atlantic (H. Willoughby)

03:00- 03:30 Break

03:30 PM What's important in the tropical Atlantic: Is it only regional or part of larger scale variability? (D. Enfield)

04:00 PM Sustaining a long term Observational System (Mc Phaden)

04:20 PM Observing Systems and Data Centers (Mike Johnson)

04:40 PM The Pirata Program (J. Servain)

06:30 to 09:30 PM Reception/ Dinner at The Commons


Day 2: Wednesday May 5

08:30 to 12:00 (Conference Room, Southeast Fisheries Center SEFC/NOAA)

08:30 PM to 10:00 PM

CORIOLIS (P. Marchand)
EQUALANT (B. Bourles)
ECLAT (B. Bourles)
MERCATOR (G. Reverdin)
CPTEC atmospheric climate model (C. Nobre)
RECONOB (E. Campos)

10:00 to 10:15 Break

10:15 AM to 12:00 NOON

Tide Gauges (M. Vianna)
German Programs (J. Fisher)
South African Program (M. Jury)
ARGO/AOML PALACE/XBT/VOS/Drifters program (Molinari)
ACCE Place floats (R. Schmitt)
MICOM (E. Chassignet)
NBC (B. Johns)

12:10 to 01:00 PM Lunch

01:00 to 05:30 PM (RSMAS Auditorium)

01:10 to 02:00 PM end programs presentation

BISEC (M. Wimbush)
SACC (R. Matano)
GAGE (J. McCartney)
IAS (D. Wilson)

02:00-02:25 PM Theme 1. SST/Surface Fluxes

(Serge Planton)

02:30-03:10 PM Theme 2. Sea Level/ Subsurface thermal Structure

(Gary Mitchun and Gilles Reverdin)

03:15- 03:45 PM Break

03:45-04:35 PM Theme 3. Circulation (In situ, Satellite derived products)

In situ observations (P. Richardson)
Satellite products ( C. Koblinski)

04:40-05:30 PM Theme 4. Modeling and Data Assimilation

Modeling the Tropical Atlantic (Ping Chang)
Ocean data assimilation in the Tropical Atlantic (J. Carton)

Day 3: Thursday May 6

(NOAA/AOML. Four small rooms)

08:30 AM to 03:00 PM

Working groups:

1. SST/Surface Fluxes

2. Sea Level/Subsurface thermal Structure

3. Circulation (Lagrangian Eulerian, Satellite derived products)

4. Modeling Data Assimilation

3:00 to 3:30 PM Coffee Break

(Conference Room, Southeast Fisheries Center SEFC/NOAA)

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Plenary. Start of Presentations from the working groups

Day 4: Friday May 10

(Conference Room, Southeast Fisheries Center SEFC/NOAA)

08:30 AM to 03:00 PM

08:30AM to 12:00 Noon: Plenary. Continuation of Presentation and discussion of the working groups.

10:00AM to 10:30 AM Break

1:00 PM to 3:00PM : Wrapping up. Writing assignments. What is next?