Program on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics And Scalar Transport In The Tropics

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Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
and Scalar Transport in the Tropics

(13 Nov - 8 Dec 2006)

Venue: IMS Auditorium

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13 - 17 Nov 2006 · 27 - 28 Nov 2006 · 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2006 · 20 - 21 Dec 2006

Monday, 13 November 2006
08:45am - 09:15am	Registration of participants
09:15am - 09:30am	Opening ceremony
09:30am - 10:30am	Current problems in tropical meteorology Adam Sobel, Columbia University, USA
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	Large-scale tropical atmospheric dynamics: waves or balance? Jun-Ichi Yano, Meteo France, France
12:00pm - 01:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
01:30pm - 02:30pm	Impacts of the Tibetan plateau on the climate in the tropics and subtropics Guo Xiong Wu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
02:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:00pm - 04:00pm	Land-sea distributions and modelling of the Asian monsoon Yimin Liu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
04:00pm - 05:30pm	--- Free Discussion ---
	End of Day 1
Tuesday, 14 November 2006
09:00am - 09:30am	Registration of participants
09:30am - 10:30am	A unified perspective on the dynamics of axisymmetric hurricanes and monsoons Volkmar Wirth, University of Mainz, Germany
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	Vortex interactions and the barotropic aspects of concentric eyewall formation Hung-Chi Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
12:00pm - 01:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
01:30pm - 02:30pm	Secret of tropical cyclones Huashu Dou, Temasek Laboratories, Singapore
02:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:00pm - 04:00pm	ENSO and western north pacific tropical cyclones Adam Sobel, Columbia University, USA
04:00pm - 05:30pm	--- Free Discussion ---
	End of Day 2
Wednesday, 15 November 2006
09:00am - 09:30am	Registration of participants
09:30am - 10:30am	Review of the squall line convection theory Tieh-Yong Koh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	Simulating Sumatra squall lines using COAMPS® Lan Yi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
12:00pm - 01:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
01:30pm - 02:30pm	Forced and spontaneously generated tropical precipitation patterns in an aqua-planet Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi, Hokkaido University, Japan
02:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:00pm - 04:00pm	Application of geostatistical techniques in satellite-based rainfall retrieval Chee Kiat Teo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
04:00pm - 05:30pm	--- Free Discussion ---
	End of Day 3
Thursday, 16 November 2006
09:00am - 09:30am	Registration of participants
09:30am - 10:30am	Seasonal climate predictability over tropical areas Zhaohui Lin, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	Development and numerical results of a global cloud resolving model and its potential application to numerical weather forcasting of tropics Masaki Satoh, University of Tokyo, Japan
12:00pm - 01:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
01:30pm - 02:30pm	Numerical experiments on the layered structures in the mid-troposphere over the equatorial Pacific with a mesoscale model Shigeo Yoden, Kyoto University, Japan
02:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:00pm - 04:00pm	Sensitivity of tropical depression due to surface forcing in the Gulf of Thailand during 22-24 October 2003 Kamol Promasakha, Thai Meteorology Department, Thailand
04:00pm - 05:30pm	--- Free Discussion ---
	End of Day 4
Friday, 17 November 2006
09:00am - 09:30am	Registration of participants
09:30am - 10:30am	How to "compress" convective tropical atmosphere Jun-Ichi Yano, Meteo France, France
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	Effects of the Coriolis force on long waves Md Ashabul Hoque, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
12:00pm - 12:10pm	Closing Remarks
	End of Day 5

13 - 17 Nov 2006 · 27 - 28 Nov 2006 · 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2006 · 20 - 21 Dec 2006

Monday, 27 November 2006
08:45am - 09:15am	Registration of participants
09:15am - 09:30am	Opening remarks
09:30am - 10:30am	Three dimensional temperature modeling for the South China Sea using remote sensing techniques Daniel Twigt, WL \| Delft Hydraulics, The Netherlands
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	Wave modelling and data assimilation scheme for wave forecasting S. A. Sannasiraj, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
12:00pm - 01:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
01:30pm - 02:30pm	Ocean hydrodynamics model with tidal forcing derived using an artificial neural network My Ha Dao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
02:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:00pm - 04:00pm	Numerical modeling of coastal processes with SLON model Oleksandr Nesterov, National University of Singapore, Singapore
04:00pm - 05:30pm	--- Free Discussion ---
	End of Day 6
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
09:00am - 09:30am	Registration of participants
09:30am - 10:30am	The developments and applications of LASG/IAP climate system ocean model (LICOM) Hailong Liu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academic of Sciences, China
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	Assimilation of satellite altimetry data into ocean circulation mode Vladan Babovic, National University of Singapore, Singapore
12:00pm - 01:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
01:30pm - 02:30pm	Development and implementation of the lagrangean scalar transport model for environmental problems in Singapore strait Pavlo Zemskyy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
02:30pm - 02:40pm	Closing remarks
	End of Day 7

13 - 17 Nov 2006 · 27 - 28 Nov 2006 · 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2006 · 20 - 21 Dec 2006

Wednesday, 29 November 2006
08:45am - 09:15am	Registration of participants
09:15am - 09:30am	Opening remarks
09:30am - 10:30am	Local diagnostic of mixing and the distribution of dynamical barriers Bernard Legras, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	Separation, re-attachment, transport, and mixing in Rayleigh-Benard convection cells Francois Lekien, Princeton University, USA
12:00pm - 01:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
01:30pm - 02:30pm	Thoughts on the chaotic advection vs turbulent mixing in the context of tropical convection Tieh-Yong Koh, Nanyang Technological University
02:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:00pm - 03:30pm	Haze episode in Singapore - Oct 2006 Chui Wah Yap, The National Environment Agency, Singapore
03:30pm - 04:00pm	Cloud-resolving modeling of cloud system during Jakarta flood event for period of january 2002 Nurjanna Joko Trilaksono, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
04:00pm - 05:30pm	--- Free Discussion ---
	End of Day 8
Thursday, 30 November 2006
09:30am - 10:30am	Quantifying transport and mixing in idealised flows and in the atmosphere Peter Haynes, University of Cambridge, UK
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	Temporal intermittency of passive-scalar decay Jacques Vanneste, University of Edingburgh, UK
12:00pm - 01:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
01:30pm - 02:30pm	The study of the effect of cloud inhomogeneity in AGCM Feng Zhang, Institute of Atmosphreic Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
02:30pm - 03:00pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:00pm - 04:00pm	Air pollution dispersion modeling in Singapore Martin Skote, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
04:00pm - 05:30pm	--- Free Discussion ---
	End of Day 9

Friday, 1 December 2006
09:30am - 10:00am	Fourier method for the linear two channels dissipation model Sumardi, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
10:00am - 10:30am	Numerical methods for solving singularly perturbed third order ordinary differential equations S. Valarmathi, Bishop Herber College, India
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 11:30am	Smooth particle hydrodynamics method: applications to oceanography and transport Alireza Valizadeh, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
11:30am - 1:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---

1:30pm - 3:00pm	Forum Discussion Peter Haynes, University of Cambridge, UK
3:00pm - 3:10pm	Closing remarks
	End of Day 10

13 - 17 Nov 2006 · 27 - 28 Nov 2006 · 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2006 · 20 - 21 Dec 2006

Wednesday, 20 December 2006
08:45am - 09:15am	Registration of participants
09:15am - 09:30am	Opening remarks
09:30am - 10:30am	Turbulence closure problem for stably stratified flows Sergej Zilitinkevich, University of Helsinki, Finland
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm	The influence of large, semi-organised eddies on the convective heat / mass transfer: revision of the classical theory and environmental modelling applications Sergej Zilitinkevich, University of Helsinki, Finland
12:00pm - 01:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
	End of Day 11
Thursday, 21 December 2006
09:30am - 10:30am	High resolution atmosphere – ocean – water ecosystem modelling for coastal zones Rein Tamsalu and Sergej Zilitinkevich, University of Helsinki, Finland
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Coffee Break ---
	End of Day 12

13 - 17 Nov 2006 · 27 - 28 Nov 2006 · 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2006 · 20 - 21 Dec 2006

Organizing Committee · Confirmed Visitors · Overview · Activities · Membership Application