Third JCOMM Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology

Gdynia, Poland, 6-9 May 2008

JCOMM Technical Report No. 45
WMO/TD-No. 1445

 

Programme, presentations, and posters


Image credit

 

 

Tuesday, 6 May

 

Comment

 

Workshop Introduction: Speakers

Chair: Mirosław Miętus

9:30-10:00

 

  1. Dr Mieczysław Ostojski, Gen. Director IMGW
  2. Etienne Charpentier, WMO and JCOMM
  3. Prof. Jerzy Bieliński Vice Rector, Univ. of Gdańsk
  4. Prof Marcin Plinski, Pres. National Committee of Sea Research in Poland
  5. Dr Wojciech Szczurek, Mayor of Gdynia
  6. Scott Woodruff, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, NOAA
  7. Mirosław Miętus, IMGW (local logistics)

 

 

S1

Session 1: Characteristics of Observational Data

Chair: Nick Rayner

10:00-12:35


No.

Title


[Note: abstract titles with noteworthy differences are also indicated in brackets]


Authors
(presenting bold)

[Note: any abstract authorship differences are not indicated]
 


Comment

S1O1 (invited)

Assessment of the Marine Observing System (ASMOS) [Assessment of the Surface Marine Meteorological Observing System]

Elizabeth Kent and David Berry

 

 

Coffee/tea

 

10:25-10:55

S1O2

A bias corrected SST analysis from 1900 to the present

John Kennedy, Nick Rayner and David Parker

 

S1O3

A Study of Bias and Inhomogeneity in Wind Speeds from Moored Buoys

B.R. Thomas and V.R. Swail

 

S1O4

Using ship tracking methods to assist in bias adjusting marine observations

Julian Hill, Simon Maskell and Mathew Cole

 

S1O5

Observational Accuracy Of Wind Wave Periods And Directional Characteristics From VOS

Vika Grigorieva and Sergey Gulev

Withdrawn

S1O6

Impact of systematic errors in hydrographic data on estimates of ocean warming

Viktor Gouretski

 

S1P1 (poster)

Uncertainties in SST measurements […: are we overestimating the reliability of SST data?]

John Kennedy

 

S1P2

Humidity Biases in VOS Observations

David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent

 

S1P3

Estimating Random Errors in Marine Air Temperatures

David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent

 

S1P4

Improved Characterisation and Bias Adjustment of Ship Winds in ICOADS

David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent

 

S1P5

Wave Climatology Over Malaysian Surrounding Waters Based On VOS Data

Nursalleh Chang [WITHDRAWN]

 

S1P6

Characteristics of the hydro-meteorological observation data in the North-Western Black Sea

Dumitru Sarafu and Mirela-Milena Nita

 Not submitted for publication

S1P7

Wave Spectra Construction in the Caribbean Sea Using Satellite Measurements after Buoy Data Analysis

Rafael Ricardo Torres Parra

 

 

Lunch

 

12:35-14:00

S2

Session 2: Data Management

Chair: Alexey Kaplan

14:00-17:35

S2O1

[Overview of JCOMM Data Management and Advances in Best Practices]

Bob Keeley

 

S2O2

ICOADS: Update Status and Data Distribution

Steven J. Worley, Scott D. Woodruff, Sandra J. Lubker, Zaihua Ji, and J. Eric Freeman

 

S2O3

ICOADS: Data Characteristics and Future Directions

Scott D. Woodruff, Elizabeth C. Kent, Philip Brohan, Richard W. Reynolds, Sandra J. Lubker, Shawn R. Smith and Zaihua Ji

 

S2O4

The present and future satellite era sea surface temperature climate data record

Craig Donlon, Kenneth S. Casey and John Stark

 

S2O5

Merging marine historical ecology and climatology [Interface between marine historical ecology and climate research]

Catherine Marzin and Stefan Claesson

 

 

Coffee/tea

 

15:45-16:15

S2O6

SEPRISE – Pan-European Operational Oceanographic Real Time Data Exchange  [SEPRISE – First step towards a pan-European oceanographic real time data exchange]

Patrick Gorringe

 

S2O7

The use of Data Buoy, Ship and Argo Float Observations - data flows and processing

Hester Viola

 

S2O8

META-T Water Temperature Metadata Pilot Project [The JCOMM water temperature metadata pilot project (META-T PP)]

Elanor Gowland and Bill Burnett

 

S2O9

Modernisation of the Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme

Nicky Scott

 

S2P1

NOAA’s Climate Database Modernization Program: Preserving Marine History

J. Eric Freeman

 

S2P2

RECovery of Logbooks and International Marine data: (RECLAIM) [Project]

Clive Wilkinson, Scott Woodruff, Eric Freeman, Philip Brohan, Frits B. Koek, and Dennis Wheeler

Revised version 20/7/2010 (i.e. UK Logbooks Temporal Range diagram changed)

S2P3

HISTOR: Digitisation of German Historical Marine Meteorological Data and Metadata

Reinhard Zöllner

Not submitted for publication

S2P4

The CLIWOC project: Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans: 1750 to 1850 [The CLIWOC Project: overview and reflection on the utility of old ship’s logbooks for climatic studies]

Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, Phil Jones, Frits Koek, Gunther Konnen, Clive Wilkinson, María del Rosario Prieto and Dennis Wheeler

 

S2P5

The Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System [(SAMOS)] Initiative

Shawn R Smith, Jeremy Rolph, and Mark A. Bourassa and

 

S2P6

Climate information system and sea state through Capacity Building for Sustainable Development in Guinea-Bissau

Cherno Luis Mendes

 Not submitted for publication

 

Poster Introductions

To be presented by designated Chair

17:35-17:50

 

Poster Viewing (all Sessions)

All poster presenters

17:50-18:50

 

Icebreaker Reception

In exhibition room on ground floor of conference building, hosted by the City Hall of Gdynia

19:00

 

 

Wednesday, 7 May

 

 

S3

Session 3: Product Development

Chair: Ken Casey

9:30-12:00

S3O1

Microwave sea surface temperatures and climatologies

Chelle Gentemann

 

S3O2

Diurnal variability in the upper ocean

Chelle L. Gentemann and Peter J. Minnett

 

S3O3

Modeling observational error of

bin-averaged in situ climate data [Use of satellite records and power spectra to model an observational error of bin-averaged in situ climate data]

Alexey Kaplan

 

 

Coffee/tea

 

10:30-11:00

S3O4

Estimating Uncertainty of Historical SST Analyses by a Cross Validation Technique

Yoshikazu Fukuda, Masayoshi Ishii and Shoji Hirahara

 

S3O5

Fast data fusion and its role in developing climate quality sea surface temperature data sets from multiple data sources

Julian Hill, Martin Juckes and Paul Fieguth

 

S3O6

The Influences of Differing Temperature and Moisture Roughness Length Parameterizations on Height Adjustment and Turbulent Surface Fluxes

Mark Bourassa, L. Bucci, C.A. Clayson, C. Forgue, M. Onderlinde, and B. Roberts

 

S3P1

Testing the HadISST2 Analysis in an

Ideal World [Testing the robustness of the proposed HadISST analysis using pseudo-world methods]

Nick A Rayner, Jen Hardwick, John Kennedy and Simon Tett

 

S3P2

The extreme storm in the south-western Baltic Sea in November 1872 – a reanalysis of the wind fields for coastal protection purposes

Gudrun Rosenhagen

 

S3P3

Initial estimates of sampling uncertainty in fixed-depth and fixed-isotherm analyses of ocean warming [Estimates of ocean heat uptake and their uncertainty]

Matt Palmer and Philip Brohan

 

S3P4

Optimal Estimation for Retrieving Sea Surface Temperature

C J Merchant (presented by Elizabeth C. Kent)

 

 

Lunch

 

12:00-13:30

S4

Session 4: New Climate Products and Intercomparisons     (Note: S4O1 withdrawn)

Chair: Klaus Wolter

13:30-16:05

S4O2

Uncertainties in SST and Sea Ice Analyses

Nick Rayner, Tess Brandon, Ken Casey, Craig Donlon, Alexey Kaplan and Liz Kent

 

S4O3

Advances in the AVHRR Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature Climate Data Record and its Connections with GHRSST Reanalysis Activities

Kenneth S. Casey, Tess B. Brandon, Craig Donlon and Nick Rayner

 

S4O4

Inter-comparison of Historical Sea Surface Temperature Datasets

Sayaka Yasunaka and Kimio Hanawa

 

S4O5

A project to create bias-corrected marine climate observations from ICOADS

Shawn R. Smith, Mark A. Bourassa, Scott Woodruff, Steve Worley, Elizabeth Kent, Simon Josey, Nick Rayner, and Richard Reynolds

 

 

Coffee/tea

 

14:55-15:25

S4O6

Reconstruction of interdecadal variability of air-sea interaction in the Atlantic 1880-2004: links to atmospheric circulation patterns

Sergey Gulev, Konstantin Belyaev, Thomas Jung, Eberhard Ruprecht

 

S4O7

Marine Climatologies from Satellite Remote Sensing […, as viewed through a Geographic Information System]

Martin Rutherford

 

S4O8

The WMO Commission for Climatology Expert Team on Climate Monitoring including the use of satellite and marine data and products

Craig Donlon, M. Brunet, M. Z. Zhang, J. Lawrimore, X. Wang, R. Hollmann,  F. Driouech, E. Rebello, and W.A. Wan Hassan

 

S4P1

A New In Situ Surface Flux Dataset from NOCS

[A new NOCS Dataset of Sea Surface Heat Fluxes]

David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent

 

S4P2

The GCOS SST/SI Intercomparison Framework for Global SST Analyses

Tess B. Brandon and Kenneth S. Casey

 

S4P3

Towards an independent time series of sea surface temperature from satellite observations

Christopher J Merchant, Owen Embury, David Llewellyn-Jones, Elizabeth C. Kent, Nick A Rayner and Roger Saunders

 

Plenary Disc. A

Marine Data & Data Quality (90 min)

Chair: Shawn Smith (Rapporteur: Bridget Thomas)

16:05-17:35

 

Conference Dinner

Restaurant Harnaś in Sopot, hosted by the General Director of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management

19:00

 

 

Thursday, 8 May

 

 

S5

Session 5: Observation-based Analyses of Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Sergey Gulev

9:30-13:10

S5O1

The use of marine data for attribution of climate change and constraining climate predictions

[The use of marine data in detection and attribution and other climate modeling activities]

Peter Stott

 

S5O2

Global Ocean Heat Content 1955-2007 in Light of

Recently Revealed Instrumentation Problems  [Recalculation of global ocean heat content in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems]

Syd Levitus, John Antonov and Tim Boyer

 

S5O3

Near Surface Ocean Temperature: Trends and Interdecadal Variability

Mark Carson and Ed Harrison

 

S5O4

Isolating the signal of ocean global warming

Matt Palmer, Keith Haines, Simon Tett and Tara Ansell

 

 

Coffee/tea

 

10:55-11:25

S5O5

Monitoring El Niño/Southern Oscillation Behaviour with an Improved Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)

Klaus Wolter and Michael S. Timlin

 

S5O6

Historical chronologies of El Niño Events and Instrumental ENSO indices

Alexey Kaplan

 

S5O7

Changes of the Thermohaline Circulation of the Nordic Seas and Climate

Waldemar Walczowski and Jan Piechura

 

S5O8

Using Ships’ Logbooks to Understand the Little Ice Age (1685 to 1750): developing a new source of climatic data

Dennis Wheeler

 

S5O9

The Characterisation of Marine Climate Using Indices

Val Swail, Scott Woodruff, Elizabeth Kent, David Parker, and Chris Folland

 

S5P1

Accuracy and Variability of the Turbulent Surface Fluxes over the North Atlantic from VOS Observations

David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent

Not submitted for publication

S5P2

Winds at the Hvar Meteorological Station with Particular Emphasis on Strong and Gale Force Winds and Safety of Boats and Ships

[Wind At The Island Hvar On The Middle Adriatic Sea]

Milan Hodžić

 

S5P3

Observations of new western Mediterranean deep water formation using Argo floats 2004-2006

Robert O. Smith, H.L. Bryden and K. Stansfield

 

S5P4

Long-term Trends of SST in the Seas adjacent to Japan

Takafumi Umeda

 

S5P5

The Antarctic Sea Ice spatial variability for the period and its relationship with atmospheric circulation

S. Barreira and R. Compagnucci

 

S5P6

Ice winter severity in the Western Baltic Sea in the Period 1301-1500

Natalija Schmelzer and Gerhard Koslowski

 Not submitted for publication

S5P7

Mean Sea Level (1817-2007) At The Swinoujscie Tide Gauge

Marzenna M. Sztobryn and Waldemar Stepko

Not submitted for publication

S5P8

Spectral Slopes and Interannual-to-Subannual Variability Ratios

Daniel Amrhein and Alexey Kaplan

 

S5P9

The wave climate of the Baltic Sea

Ewa Jakusik

 

S5P10

Far North Atlantic Climate 1760-1799: Evidence from logbooks of the Hudson’s Bay Company

Catharine Ward (presented by Dennis Wheeler)

Not submitted for publication

 

Lunch

 

 

Plenary Disc. B

Marine Metadata & Data Management (60 min)

Chair: Bob Keeley (Rapporteur: Eric Freeman)

14:30-15:30

 

Coffee/tea

 

15:30-16:00

 

Poster viewing (all Sessions)

All poster presenters

15:30-18:00

 

 

Friday, 9 May

 

 

S6

Session 6: New Initiatives

Chair: Craig Donlon

9:30-12:10

S6O1

Marine climate data and research priorities for the IPCC 5th Assessment

David Parker

 

S6O2

Storm Surge Climatology: JCOMM Scientific and Technical Symposium on Storm Surges

Val R. Swail and Boram Lee

 

S6O3

Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth: The 20th Century Reanalysis Project, and longer historical reanalyses

Rob Allan, Gilbert P Compo, Jeffrey S Whitaker and Prashant D Sardeshmukh

 

 

Coffee/tea

 

10:35-11:05

S6O4

ENSO forecasts with an intermediate coupled model initialized and verified by historical climate datasets

Dake Chen, Alicia Karspeck, Alexey Kaplan, Mark Cane, and Richard Seager

 

S6O5

Exploration of Antarctic weather: recovering observations from the early 20th century

Philip Brohan and Robert J Allan

Not submitted for publication

S6O6

BACC: BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin – Process and Results   […– Summary and Outlook]

Hans von Storch

 

S6P1

Regional Comparison of Surface Turbulent Flux Products

Paul J. Hughes, Shawn R. Smith and Mark A. Bourassa

 

S6P2

coastDat at IfK of GKSS, I: Detailed description and assessment of coastal climate change since 1958 in N Europe

[The CoastDat project at GKSS – assessing ongoing change and projecting possible future changes in marine weather – winds, surges, waves and currents]

Hans von Storch, Ralf Weisse, Frauke Feser, Jörg Winterfeldt, Andreas Plüss and Lidia Gaslikova

 

 

Lunch

 

12:10-13:30

Plenary Disc. C

Marine Indices & Products (90 min)

Chair: Val Swail (Rapporteur: John Kennedy)

13:30-15:00

Plenary Disc. D

Workshop Outcomes (30 min)

Chair: Scott Woodruff (Rapporteur: Elizabeth Kent)

15:00-15:30

 

Workshop Closure

 

15:30

 

Coffee/tea

 

15:30-16:00


Image credit: Thomson, C.W., 1878: The Voyage of the Challenger: the Atlantic: A Preliminary Account of the General Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the Year 1873 and the Early Part of the Year 1876. New York, Harper & Brothers (from vol. 1, p. 65, photograph courtesy of the NOAA Photo Library).