Program

Tentative Program:
Ocean Prediction Networking (OPNet) Meeting 1/2010
Venue: Highland Hotel, Geilo, Norway
Date: May 27– 28, 2010
Thursday May 27:
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 13:10
Lars Petter Røed, met.no: Welcoming address,
13:10 – 13:50
Key note speaker: Mike Bell, UK Met Office, UK: Operational oceanography
at UK Met Office: Research and Development
13:50 – 14:20,
Lars Petter Røed, met.no: Analysis of four decadal simulations of the
Skagerrak mesoscale circulation using two ocean models,
14:20 – 14:30
Walkabout and coffee
14:30 – 15:00
Bjørn Ådlandsvik, IMR: The Norwegian Coastal Model
15:00 – 15.30
Henning Wehde, IMR: tbd
15:30 – 17:00
Coffee break and discussions.
Possible discussion themes:
1. GMES Surface Wave forecasting: met.no coordinates a proposal to EU
2. MyOcean II: More of the same or less R and more D
3. National added value of ongoing projects, e.g., MyOcean, BarentsWatch,.
4. Coordination of activities in international for, e.g., NOOS, ArcticROOS,
EuroGOOS, ICES-WGOOFE,.
5. How does our activities contribute to MFSD?
6. Mutual information of upcoming project proposals and projects
17:00 – 17:30
Einar Svendsen, IMR: tbd
17:30 – 18:00
Dominique Durand, NIVA: tbd
19:30 Aperitif (in the bar)
20:00 Dinner
Speaker: Open
Friday May 28
09:00 – 09:30
Bruce Hackett, met.no: Operational models at met.no: Status and future
09:30 – 10:00
Øyvind Sætra, met.no: Why ocean models need sea state dependent
momentum fluxes.
10:00 – 10:30
Ann Kristin Sperrevik, met.no: Assimilation of in situ data in ROMS
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30
Dominique Durand, NIVA: Ferrybox and biogeochemical data in MyOcean
... what comes next with EC-Jerico?
11:30 – 12:00
Ehouarn Simon, NERSC: Non-Guassianity and biased parameter
estimation of an ocean biological system with EnKF
12:00 – 12:30
Einar Svendsen, IMR: tbd
12:30 – 12:40
Next meeting and discussions
List of attendees OPNet 1/2010:
Revised May 26, 2010
NERSC:
IMR:
Ehouarn Simon
Einar Svendsen
NN
Bjørn Ådlandsvik
Henning Wedhe
NIVA:
met.no:
Dominique Durand
Bruce Hackett
Kjersti Daae
Øyvind Sætra
Ann Kristin Sperrevik
Lars Petter Røed
Other:
Dr. Mike Bell, UK Met Office, UK