5th workshop on waves and wave-coupled processes

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Wednesday, 10 April 2024 Speaker(s)
08:30 – 09:15 Opening
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:05 Welcome
Andy Brown (ECMWF)
09:05 – 09:15 Introduction
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Jean Bidlot (ECMWF)
09:15 – 11:05 Session 1: Dynamics of ocean waves

Chair: Hendrik Tolman

09:15 – 09:55 Wave coupling effects in regional and global atmosphere-ocean modeling
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Nobuhito Mori (Kyoto University)
09:55 – 10:15 Wave Breaking Probability in Highly Directional Seas
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James Steer (University of Oxford)
10:15 – 10:35 Wave kinetics with the account for finite non-Gaussianity effects
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Sergei Annenkov (Keele University)
10:35 – 11:05 Coffee break
11:05 – 13:40 Session 2: Interactions between wind and waves

Chair: Shuyi Chen

11:05 – 11:45 Operational wave forecasting and two-way interaction of wind and waves
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Peter Janssen (ECMWF)
11:45 – 12:05 Effects of atmosphere-surface ocean waves two-way coupling on the simulated climatology of the North Atlantic
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Thomas Toniazzo (NORCE and Bjerknes Centre)
12:05 – 12:25 Updates on Wave Coupling for the next Global Forecast System GFSv17
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Jessica Meixner (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC)
12:25 – 12:45 Adding wave model coupling to the Met Office GC5 global coupled modelling system
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Nikesh Narayan (UK Met Office)
12:45 – 13:40 Lunch break
13:40 – 15:40 Session 3 (Part 1): Wave-coupled effects in gas transfer and aerosol production and other processes where ocean waves are relevant

Chair: Øyvind Breivik

13:40 – 14:20 From wave breaking to air-sea fluxes of mass, heat, and momentum via bubbles and sea spray
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Sophia Brumer (Laboratoire d'Aérologie)
14:20 – 14:40 Breaking Wave Whitecaps: Applying laboratory-derived results to field observations
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Adrian Callaghan (Imperial College London)
14:40 – 15:00 Wind waves as a source of noise in the Earth system: opportunities formonitoring the stratosphere
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Fabrice Ardhuin (LOPS)
15:00 – 15:40 Coffee break
15:40 – 16:40 Session 3 (Part 2): Wave-coupled effects in gas transfer and aerosol production and other processes where ocean waves are relevant

Chair: Erick Rogers

15:40 – 16:00 Using High-Wind Observations to Constrain a Seastate-Dependent Air-Sea Heat Flux Parameterization with Spray for Use in Coupled Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean Models
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Benjamin Barr (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
16:00 – 16:20 Wave-Coupled Effects in the CO2 Exchange and Spray Production near the Ocean Interface
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Alexander Babanin (University of Melbourne)
16:20 – 16:40 Parameterisation challenge: Lake Titicaca
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Jean Bidlot (ECMWF)
16:40 – 16:50 Comfort break
16:50 – 18:00 Day 1 wrap-up

Rapporteurs: Josh Kousal and Øyvind Breivik

16:50 – 18:00 Discussion, retirement presentations and poster introductions
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17:50 – 20:30 Posters
18:00 – 20:30 Ice breaker and posters

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Thursday, 11 April 2024 Speaker(s)
09:00 – 11:00 Session 4: Wave influences in the upper ocean

Chair: Peter Janssen

09:00 – 09:40 The wave-mediated ocean-atmosphere system
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Øyvind Breivik (MET Norway)
09:40 – 10:00 REMOTE PRESENTATION: FIO-ESM: the earth system model coupled with ocean surface waves
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Zhenya Song (First Institute of Oceanography, MNR)
10:00 – 10:15 On the impact of wave directionality in the ocean/wave coupling : Thanks to CFOSAT wave spectra
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Lotfi Aouf (Meteo France, DIROP-CNRM)
10:15 – 10:30 Miniaturized, Multi-Purpose Drifter for Sea Surface State Monitoring
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Alexey Mironov (eOdyn)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 13:40 Session 5: Wave-sea-ice interactions
Chair: Nobuhito Mori
11:00 – 11:40 Ocean waves in sea ice: dependence of dissipation on ice thickness for coupled wave modeling
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Erick Rogers (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
11:40 – 12:00 Short-term wave and ice forecast for navigation assistance in the Arctic Ocean
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Takuji Waseda (University of Tokyo)
12:00 – 12:15 Estimates of wave attenuation from ICESat-2 observations
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Joey Voermans (University of Melbourne)
12:15 – 12:30 The evolution of wave directional properties in the marginal ice zone
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Alberto Alberello (University of East Anglia)
12:30 – 12:50 Development of Wave-Sea Ice Interactions in the ECMWF Earth System Model
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Josh Kousal (ECMWF)
12:50 – 13:40 Lunch break
13:40 – 17:30 Session 6: Wave-current interactions

Chair: Fabrice Ardhuin

13:40 – 14:10 Wave-current interaction in operational wave forecasting
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Trygve Halsne (Norwegian Meteorological Institute)
14:10 – 14:30 A Vortex-Force Formalization Implementation for Representing Wave Effects on Currents COMPAS -SWAN unstructured coupled modelling suite
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Cagil Kirezci (CSIRO, Australia)
14:30 – 15:20 Group photo and coffee break
15:20 – 17:10 Session 7: Wave-coupled processes in extreme conditions

Chair: Sophia Brumer

15:20 – 16:00 Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean Coupling in Extreme Conditions and High-Impact Weather Prediction
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Shuyi Chen (University of Washington)
16:00 – 16:20 Redistribution of Air–Sea Momentum by Ocean Surface Gravity Waves and its affect on the simulation of cyclone
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Lichuan Wu (Uppsala University)
16:20 – 16:40 Wave ensemble forecasting with a regional coupled system
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Vivian-Angelina Fraser-Leonhardt (Met Office)
16:40 – 17:00 Wave model driven changes in ECMWF Earth System Model
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Jean Bidlot (ECMWF)
17:00 – 17:10 Comfort break
17:10 – 18:10 Day 2 wrap-up
Rapporteurs: Josh Kousal and Øyvind Breivik
17:10 – 18:10 Discussion
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18:30 – 20:30 Social / networking
18:10 – 18:40 Pre-dinner drinks
18:40 – 20:40 Dinner at ECMWF

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Friday, 12 April 2024 Speaker(s)
09:00 – 10:45 Session 8: Wind, waves and turbulence

Chair: Takuji Waseda

09:00 – 09:15 Wind stress from the Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Pilot Project in the Gulf of Mexico
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Francesco Ocampo-Torres (CEMIE-Océano, México)
09:15 – 09:30 Misaligned Wind-Waves Behind Atmospheric Cold Fronts
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César Sauvage (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
09:30 – 09:45 Underestimate of ECMWF wind speeds in coastal areas
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Luigi Cavaleri (Institute of marine Sciences, Italian National Research Council)
09:45 – 10:00 REMOTE PRESENTATION: Experiments on surface wave-turbulence interactions
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Dejun Dai (First Institute of Oceanography)
10:00 – 10:15 On extreme events in random-phase NLS wavefields: onset of MI and the lentgh of the domain
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Agissilaos Athanassoulis (University of Dundee)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 13:10 Session 9: Coupling strategies

Chair: Jessica Meixner

10:45 – 11:25 Coupling strategies
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Hendrik Tolman (NOAA / NWS)
11:25 – 11:45 A Particle-In-Cell Wave model for Efficient Sea State-Dependent Parametrization in Coupled Models
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Momme Hell (Brown University / NCAR)
11:45 – 12:05 Towards energetically consistent coupling
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Lars Czeschel (University of Hamburg)
12:05 – 12:20 Applications of SMC grid wave models in coupled systems
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Jian-Guo Li (UK Met Office)
12:20 – 13:10 Lunch break
13:10 – 15:00 Session 10: Data driven methods

Chair: Trygve Halsne

13:10 – 13:25 Do swells contribute to surface mixing? Results from machine learning models for SST diurnal warming and cool skin
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Haoyu Jiang (China University of Geosciences)
13:25 – 13:40 The effect of atmospheric instability on wave growth
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Fang Hou (National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center)
13:40 – 14:00 Application of machine learning in wave forecasting considering atmospheric instability
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Xu Rui (National Marine Environment Forecasting Center)
14:00 – 14:30 ECMWF Machine Learning developments
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Simon Lang (ECMWF)
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Day 3 wrap-up

Rapporteurs: Josh Kousal and Øyvind Breivik

15:00 – 16:00 Discussion and conclusions
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End of the workshop