Agenda

14:00 - 15:00 Registration

15:00-17:00 Poster Session and Icebreaker 

1. Julio Salcedo-Castro, Ricardo de Camargo and Eduardo Marone, Combining numerical modeling and reanalysis data to study the air-sea interaction in the Southeastern Pacific: Application to the study of ocean swells off Chile

2. Ricardo de Camargo, Bruno Biazeto, Fabricio V. Branco, Ilana E.K.Wainer and Joseph Harari, Building a detailed dataset for extreme marine events in the Western South Atlantic

3. Christopher Chambers, Gary Brassington, Ian Simmonds and Kevin Walsh, Precipitation Changes Due to the Introduction of Eddy-Resolving Sea Surface Temperatures into Simulations of East Coast Lows

4. Katja Fennel, F. Aikman, R. Hetland, D. Justic, D. S. Ko, A. Laurent, J. Lehrter, M. Murrell, L. Wang, J. Xu, L. Yu and W. Zhang, Inter-comparison of Hypoxia Models for the Northern Gulf of Mexico

5. Mingxian Guo, Peng Xiu, Shiyu Li, Huijie Xue, Fei Chai and Jiatang Hu, Biological effect of meso-scale eddies on the phytoplankton blooms in the vicinity of Luzon Strait

6. Ke Huang, Huijie Xue, Fei Chai and Sergio Derada, Comparison of couple-BOP numerical ocean modeling with observational data: physical results 

7. Arnaud Laurent, Katja Fennel, Robin Wilson, John Lehrter and Richard Devereux, Parameterization of biogeochemical sediment-water fluxes using in-situ measurements and a steady-state diagenetic model 

8. Eric C. J. Oliver, Simon Wotherspoon and Neil Holbrook, Estimating extremes from ocean and climate models: A Bayesian hierarchical model approach 

9. Benjamin Storer and Francis Poulin, A semi-beta-plane model for shallow water 

10. Yujuan Sun, Simulation Study of Upper Ocean Responses to Typhoon Cimaron in the South China Sea 

11. Fumin Xu and Will Perrie, Shallow Water Dissipation Processes for Wind Waves off the Mackenzie Delta 

12. Feng Zhou, Huijie Xue, Daji Huang, Peng Xiu, Fei Chai, Xiaobo Ni and Jiliang Xuan, A coupled physical-biological model of the East China Sea 

13. Shouxian Zhu, The research on the separated character of long-term water and salinity transport in Zhujiang Estuary

14. Vivien P. Chua and Ming Xu, Impacts of sea-level rise on estuarine circulation: An idealized estuary model and San Francisco Bay 

 

07:30 - 08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:00 Opening remarks (Chris Moore, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Dalhousie University)

09:00 - 09:30 Keynote Lecture: George Mellor, A A combined derivation of the integral and differential, coupled wave-current equations

09:30 - 09:50 Coffee Break

Session 1: Waves, Currents, and Their Interactions in Coastal and Shelf Seas
Chair: Xiao Hua Wang

09:50 - 10:10 Will Perrie, Bash Toulany and  Don Resio,  An optimized two-scale approximation for wave-wave interactions in operational wave forecast models 

10:10 - 10:30 Xin Liu and Jun Wei, Forced ocean responses of the Kuroshio to typhoon Megi (OYSA)

10:30 - 10:50 Fumin Xu and Will Perrie, High Precision Simulation of Hurricane Generated Waves in Coastal Shallow Water

10:50 - 11:10 Guoqiang Liu William Perrie, Wave effects on the surface currents: simulations with an updated fully coupled wave-current model

11:10 - 11:30 Dehai Song and Xiao Hua Wang, The Effect of Wave-current Interaction on Suspended Sediment Transport in the Deepwater Navigation Channel, Yangtze River Estuary, China in the Dry Season 2009

11:30 - 11:50 Lanli Guo and Jinyu Sheng, Simulation of ocean waves over the North Atlantic Ocean using WAVEWATCHIII with Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

11:50 - 12:10 Fabricio Branco, Ricardo de Camargo, Ilana Wainer, Bruno Biazeto and Enzo Todesco, Examining global wave climate for different representations of present and future conditions (OYSA)

12:10 - 13:30 Lunch

Session 2: Circulation and Dynamics in Coastal Waters and Shelf Seas (part 1)
Chair: Jinyu Sheng 

13:30 - 13:50 Li Zhai, Youyu Lu, Simon Higginson, Fraser Davidson, Fred Dupont, Francois Roy, Jerome Chanut and Greg Smith, High-resolution modelling of flow and meso-scale eddy variability around the Grand Banks of Newfoundland

13:50 - 14:10 Jorge Urrego-Blanco and Jinyu Sheng, Study of sea ice dynamics in the Gulf of St. Lawrence using a nested-grid ocean-ice model (OYSA)

14:10 - 14:30 Yuehua Lin, David B. Fissel, Ryan Clouston, Edward Ross and Alex Slonimer, A numerical study of the circulation in Chatham Sound, BC, Canada

14:30 - 14:50 Li-Feng Lu and Keiko Takahashi, Sea water temperature in Tokyo Bay under the influence of river discharges

14:50 - 15:10 Fanghua Xu, Dong-Ping Wang and Leo Oey, The 3-layer circulation structure of the Luzon Strait and the South China Sea

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break

Session 3: Circulation and Dynamics in coastal waters and Shelf Seas (part 2)
Chair: Jarle Berntsen

15:30 - 15:50  Kyoko Ohashi and Jinyu Sheng, Using numerical particle-tracking to study the movement of marine animals

15:50 - 16:10 Ming Xu, Guangliang Liu and Vivien P. Chua, Numerical modelling of circulation and exchange through Singapore Straits

16:10 - 16:30 Catherine Brennan, Laura Bianucci and Katja Fennel, Sensitivity of northwestern North Atlantic shelf circulation to surface and boundary forcing: A regional model assessment

16:30 - 16:50 Siva Prasad and Igor Zakharov, The implementation of sea ice model on a high resolution regional scale (OYSA)

16:50 - 17:10 Shiliang Shan, Jinyu Sheng and Blair J.W. Greenan, Modelling study of circulation and particle movement in a submarine canyon: Sable Gully (OYSA)

17:15 - 18:30 Poster Session (continue)

19:00 - 21:00 Reception

Session 4: Multi-Scale Ocean & Atmospheric Processes (part 1)
Chair: Leo Oey

08:30 - 08:50 Yu-Lin Eda Chang, Yasumasa Miyazawa and Xinyu Guo, The effects of STCC eddies on Kuroshio

08:50 - 09:10 Yujuan Sun, Jiayi Pan and Will Perrie, Simulation of the wave effects on ocean responses to Hurricane Juan (2003) (OYSA)

09:10 - 09:30 Jingru Sun, Fanghua Xu and Yanluan Lin, Influence of the ocean on typhoon Nuri (2008) (OYSA)

09:30 - 09:50 Jianping Gan and Zhiqiang Liu, Upwelling and potential vorticity dynamics around a coastal promontory

09:50 - 10:10 Leo Oey, M.-C. Chang, S.-M. Huang, Y.-L. Chang, M.-A. Lee and Y.-C. Lin, Far-reaching impact of a coastal front on the East Asian winter monsoon wind

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break

Session 5: Multi-Scale Ocean & Atmospheric Processes (part 2)
Chair: Youyu Lu

10:30 - 10:50 Sergey M. Varlamov, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Yosuke  Yamashiki and Toshiaki Sasaki,  Impact of river discharges on circulation and material transport in Japanese coastal waters simulated by JCOPE ocean model

10:50 - 11:10 Toru Miyama, Yasumasa Miyazawa and Humio Mitsudera, Short-term fluctuations south of Japan and their relationship with the Kuroshio path: 40- to 80-day fluctuations

11:10 - 11:30 Hao Wei, Youyu Lu, Jiaxing Li and Xiaofan Luo,  Inter-annual variations of water temperature and circulation in the East China Sea

11:30 - 12:00 Keynote Lecture:  Richard Greatbatch, Deep jets in the Equatorial Atlantic

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

Session 6: Multi-Scale Ocean & Atmospheric Processes (part 3)
Chairs: Jianping Gan & Leo Oey

13:30 - 13:50 Jia Wang and Xuezhi Bai, Modeling seasonal and interannual variability of general circulation and thermal structure in the Great Lakes with FVCOM

13:50 - 14:10 Dabin Liu, Liqun Tang, Chonghao Wang and Chuansheng Guo Numerical Study of Influence from Changes in Circulation and Sediment Transport Associated with Human Activities to the Ecological Environment in Tieshan Bay

14:10 - 14:30 Haibo Hu, and Will Perrie,  Influences of Indian Ocean interannual variability on different stages of El Niño: A FOAM Model Approach (OYSA)

14:30 - 14:50 Youyu Lu, Ji Lei, Simon Higginson, Frederic Dupont, Fraser Davidson, Gregory C. Smith,  High-resolution modelling of inter-annual  variations of circulation and freshwater pathway in the Arctic Ocean

14:50 - 15:10 Gary B. Brassington, Sampling the stochastic forecast errors using a multicycle ocean prediction system

“OYSA” means the presenter of this talk is a candidate for the Outstanding Young Scientist Award.

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break

Session 7: Climate Dynamics and Modeling
Chair: Tal Ezer

15:30 - 15:50 Tal Ezer, The challenge of predicting uneven sea level rise and flooding risks associated with climatic changes in ocean dynamics

15:50 - 16:10 Zhenxia Long and Will Perrie, Scenario changes of Atlantic water in the Arctic Ocean

16:10 - 16:30 Xiaomei Ji and Jinyu Sheng, The influence of coastline changes on tidal circulation in the abandoned Yellow River Mouth and adjacent coastal waters

16:30 - 16:50 Zhigang Xu, The all-Source Green's Function and Its Application to Storm Surge Modeling

16:50 - 17:10 Eric C. J. Oliver, Simon Wotherspoon, Matthew Chamberlain and Neil  Holbrook, Projected change in Tasman Sea marine climate, extremes, and circulation through the 21st century

17:15 - 18:30 Poster Session (continue)

Session 8: Modeling and Prediction of Extreme Marine Events
Chair: Yasumasa Miyazawa

08:30 - 08:50 Gary B Brassington, The rapidly developing field of operational oceanography and its application to safety of life and infrastructure

08:50 - 09:10  Xiangbo Feng and M. N. Tsimplis, Change of wave and sea level extremes at marginal seas

09:10 - 09:30  Ricardo de Camargo, Alberto Francisco Mavume and Adilson Wagner Gandu, Numerical modeling of storm surges in the coast of Mozambique

09:30 - 09:50 Yasumasa Miyazawa, Nobuyoshi Yamashita, Sachi Taniyasu, Eriko Yamazaki, Xinyu Guo, Sergey M. Varlamov and Toru Miyama, Oceanic dispersion of anomalous perfluoroalkyl substances in the Western North Pacific associated with the great earthquake 0311 in Japan

09:50 - 10:10 Heng Zhang and Jinyu Sheng, Mapping present day extreme sea levels over coastal waters of northwestern Pacific

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break

Session 9: Coupled Bio-physical Ocean Models
Chairs: Katja Fennel & DanLing Tang

10:30 - 10:50 DanLing Tang, H.J. Ye ; Y. Sui and Y.D. Afanasyev, Surface and subsurface phytoplankton blooms induced by typhoon in the South China Sea

10:50 - 11:10 Arnaud Laurent and Katja Fennel, Phosphorus limitation reduces hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico: results from a physical-biogeochemical model

11:10 - 11:30 Laura Bianucci, Katja Fennel and J. Paul Mattern, Evidence for temporal evolution in biological parameters in a 3D regional model

11:30 - 11:50 Ango Hsu, Huijie Xue and Fei Chai, Effects of NEC transport and bifurcation latitude on Japanese eel larval migration (OYSA)

11:50 - 12:10 Liuqian Yu, Katja Fennel and Arnaud Laurent, A modelling study of the physical controls on hypoxia on the Louisiana Shelf (OYSA)

12:10 - 13:30 Lunch

 

Session 10: Simulation of Internal Waves
Chair: Kevin Lamb

13:30 - 13:50 Kevin G. Lamb and Alex Warn-Varnas, Shoaling internal solitary waves in the South China Sea

13:50 - 14:10 Tsubasa Kodaira, Takuji Waseda and Yasumasa Miyazawa, Numerical analysis of oceanic internal solitary wave generation around an island in stratified shear flow (OYSA)

14:10 - 14:30 Robert Irwin and Francis Poulin, Geophysical instabilities in a 2-layer rotating shallow water model (OYSA)

14:30 - 14:50 Francis Poulin, Using the rotating shallow water model to study the stability of ocean currents

14:50 - 15:10  Jun Zhao and Y. R. Rao, Application of a numerical model for circulation and tracer distribution in Western Lake Ontario 

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break

Session 11: Numerical Techniques and Approaches in Ocean Modeling (Part 1)
Chair: Richard Greatbatch

15:30 - 15:50 Jarle Berntsen, Johannes Dugstad and Helge Avlesen, Assessment of tidal current energy in the Lofoten area, Norway

15:50 - 16:10 Bert Viikmäe, Tarmo Soomere and Tomas Torsvik, Optimising fairways in the Gulf of Finland using patterns of surface currents (OYSA)

16:10 - 16:30 Eric Bembenek, Francis Poulin and Michael Waite, Realizing surface driven ocean flows in the primitive equations (OYSA)

16:30 - 16:50 Fatemeh Chegini and Masoud Montazeri Namin, An efficient algorithm for solving pressure Poisson system in non-hydrostatic free surface flow models (OYSA)

16:50 - 17:10 John Yawney, Francis Poulin and Paul Ullrich, A new high-order finite-volume ocean model to study ocean processes (OYSA)

18:00 - 21:00 Banquet

 

 

Session 12: Numerical Techniques and Approaches in Ocean Modeling (Part 2)
Chair: Huijie Xue

08:30 - 08:50 Michael Dunphy and Kevin G. Lamb, Focusing and vertical mode scattering of the first mode internal tide by mesoscale eddy interaction (OYSA)

08:50 - 09:10 Shivanesh Rao, Huijie Xue and Min Bao , Modeling power potential for tidal turbine farms in the Western Passage (OYSA)

09:10 - 09:30 Jean-Pierre Auclair, Hal Ritchie and Jean-François Lemieux, Improving the numerics of sea ice models using the Exact Newton's Method (OYSA)

09:30 - 09:50 Yign Noh, Hyejin Ok and Eunjeong Lee, Parameterization of the effect of Langmuir Circulation in the ocean mixed layer model using LES and its application to the OGCM

09:50 - 10:10 Jinyu Sheng and Xiaomei Ji, Circulation and variability in the Pearl River Estuary and associated coastal waters

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:50 Discussion - IWMO 2015 

11:50            Lunch