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Thursday, November 5
8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration and Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:30 am Partition of Atmospheric and Oceanic Heat Transport: Role of Ocean Circulation
John Marshall, MIT, Cambridge, MA
9:30 am - 10:30 am Some Puzzles Concerning the Response of Poleward Atmospheric Energy Transports to Climate Change
Isaac Held, Princeton University, GFDL/NOAA, Princeton, NJ
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am Aspects of the Atmospheric General Circulation Related to Poleward Energy Transport and Coupling to the Ocean
Paul O'Gorman, MIT, Cambridge, MA
11:20 am - 11:40 am Why does Poleward Latent Heat Flux have an Upper Limit?
Rodrigo Caballero, University College Dublin, Meteorology and Climate Centre, Dublin, Ireland; and John Hanley
11:40 am - 12:00 pm The Simplest General Circulation Model
Timothy DelSole, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA and the Center for Ocean-Land Atmosphere Sciences, Calverton, NJ
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm A Heuristic Model of the Seasonal Cycle in Energy Fluxes and Climate
David S. Battisti and Aaron Donohoe, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm The Energy Budget of Mid-Latitude Storm Tracks
Yohai Kaspi, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and Tapio Schneider
3:20 pm - 3:40 pm Estimates of Ocean to Atmospheric Heat Transport at Middle Latitudes from Temperature and Salinity Variations in the Ocean
Arnaud Czaja and Christopher Dancel, Imperial College, London, UK
3:40 pm - 4:00 pm Multiple Equilibria of the Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice System
Brian Rose, MIT, Cambridge, MA; David Ferreira, and John Marshall
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Coffee Break
Poster Session I (Dabney Gardens)
6:00 pm Banquet (Main Lounge - Athenaeum)

Friday, November 6
8:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:30 am General Observational Issues in Oceanic Enthalpy Transport Determination
Carl Wunsch, MIT, Cambridge, MA
9:30 am - 10:30 am Freshwater Transports and the Ocean's Stratification
Lynne Talley, UC San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
10:30 am - 11:00 am Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am What Sets the Mid-Depth Stratification in Eddying Ocean Models?
Christopher Wolfe, UC San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA; and Paola Cessi
11:20 am - 11:40 am The Role of the Hydrological Cycle in Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Heat Transport
David Ferreira, MIT, EAPS, Cambridge, MA; and John Marshall
11:40 am - 12:00 pm Mechanisms of Oceanic Heat Transport from an ECCO2 Data Synthesis
Denis L. Volkov, JPL / Caltech, Pasadena, CA; Lee-Lueng Fu, and Tong Lee
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Measurements of Ocean mass and Heat Transport
Harry Bryden, University of Southampton, NOC, Southampton, UK; W. E. Johns, N. C. Wells, and D. I. Berry
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm The Role of Eddies in Ocean Heat Transport
Paola Cessi, UC San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Coffee Break
4:30 pm - 4:50 pm Eddies and heat transport in the Southern Ocean
Raffaele Ferrari, MIT, Cambridge, MA
4:50 pm - 5:10 pm Propagation of Ocean Transport Anomalies along Meridional Boundaries
David Marshall, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Helen Johnson, and Xiaoming Zhai
5:10 pm - 5:30 pm Estimates of the Upper Ocean Heat Budget in the North Atlantic from Three Models: The Role of Ocean Heat Transport Convergence
LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Kathryn A. Kelly, Suzanne Dickinson, Julie McClean, and Greg Greiner
5:30 pm Reception
Poster Session 2 (Dabney Lounge and Gardens)

Saturday, November 7
8:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:30 am The Ocean Energy Cycle
Kraig Winters, UC San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
9:30 am - 10:30 am Equable Climates: Never Mind the Heat Transport, It's the Clouds...
Eli Tziperman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am Variability and Compensation of the Meridional Energy Transport in the Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean System
Riccardo Farneti, Princeton University, GFDL/AOS Program, Princeton, NJ; and Geoffrey K. Vallis
11:20 am - 11:40 am Mass and Energy Transport of an EMIC Ensemble for the 20th and 21st Centuries
Jeffrey Scott, MIT, Cambridge, MA
11:40 am - 12:00 pm On the Role of Tropical Cyclones in Ocean Heat Transport
Malte Jansen, MIT, Cambridge, MA
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm The Climate of the Early Pliocene: Weak SST Gradients and the Problem of Poleward Heat Transport
Alexey Fedorov, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and Chris Brierley
12:20 pm Low-Order Models of Biogenic Ocean Mixing
John O. Dabiri, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; Diego Rossinelli, and Petros Koumoutsakos

  Posters
  THURSDAY

The Hadley Circulation in a Wide Range of Climates: Simulations with an Aquaplanet GCM Coupled to Ocean Heat Transport
Xavier Levine, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and Tapio Schneider

Overturning Analyses of the Meridional Energy Transport in the Atmosphere Based on Reanalysis data
Kristofer Doos and Johan Nilsson, Stockholm University, Sweden

Atmosphere-Sea Ice Interactions over a Wide Range of Climates
Ian Eisenman, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; Tapio Schneider, David Battisti, and Cecilia Bitz

Variability of the Pacific ITCZ
Caroline L. Bain, UC Irvine, CA; and Gudrun Magnusdottir

Variability of the Ocean Overturning Circulation
Martha Buckley, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Seasonal Variations in Total Heat Transport
Aaron Donohoe, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Changes in Atmospheric Energy Transports in Mid-latitudes with Global Warming: Analysis of IPCC AR4 Full GCMs
Yen-Ting Hwang, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and Dargan M. Frierson

The Oceans: Heat Engine or Not Heat Engines?
Remi Tailleux, University of Reading, Reading, UK

The Simulation of Southern Ocean Water Mass Transports and Transformations in Coarse Coupled Models
Stephanie M. Downes, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Anand Gnandesikan, Eric D. Galbraith, Stephen M. Griffies, and Bonita L. Samuels

Seasonal Cycle of Tropical Energy Transports in an Idealized Coupled General Circulation Model
Timothy M. Merlis, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and Tapio Schneider

What drives the ocean heat transport?
Raffaele Ferrari and David Ferreira, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Moist Circulations and IPCC AR4 Model Outputs
Frederic Laliberte, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and Olivier Pauluis

The Roles of Convective Heat Fluxes in the Dynamics of Giant Planets
Junjun Liu, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; Tapio Schneider

FRIDAY

Regime Transitions of Steady and Time-Dependent Hadley Circulations: Comparison of Axisymmetric and Eddy-Permitting Simulations
Simona Bordoni, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and Tapio Schneider

Role of Upper Ocean Stratification in Hurricane-Induced Vertical Mixing and Implications for Meridional Heat Transport in the Ocean
Karthik Balaguru, Texas A & M, College Station, TX

Statistical Mechanics for Ocean Currents and Vortices Freddy Bouchet, INLN-CNRS Nice, France and CNLS Los Alamos, NM; and Antoine Venaille

The Effect of Extratropical Mixing on the Upper Ocean Thermal Structure and Poleward Heat Transport
Chris Brierly, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and Alexey Fedorov

Reynolds Stress and Eddy Viscosity in Direct Numerical Simulation of Sheared Two-Dimensional Turbulence
Patrick Cummins, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC; and Greg Holloway

Turbulent Transfer of Momentum and Scalars in Geophysical Flows
Boris Galperin, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and Semion Sukoriansky

Statistics of the General Circulation from Cumulant Expansions
Brad Marston, Brown University, Providence, RI

Connections between Ocean Heat Transport and the APE Cycle: The Role of Geostrophic Eddies
Ross Tulloch, MIT, Cambridge, MA; John Marshall, and David Ferreira

Eddy Effective Diffusivities in the Southern Ocean
Ryan Abernathey, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Scaling Laws and Regime Transitions of Atmospheric Eddy Heat Transport
Tapio Schneider, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and Christopher Walker

Impact of Resolution on Ocean Energy Transport Mechanisms in ECCO2 Simulations
Dimitris Menemenlis, JPL, Pasadena, CA; Denis Volkov, Michael Schodlok, and Chris Hill

ECCO- Eddy simulations add new dimensions to the Indian Ocean biogeochemical, coral reef and physical oceanographic responses
Rahul P.R.C, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India; P.S. Salvekar and Sahu.B.K

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