Theme 1

Climate Modeling and Diagnostic Studies

Theme 2

Processes Studies and Pan-Arctic Models

Theme 3

Climate Change Simulations and Projections

IARC � JAMSTEC Research Project Review

8:30 am � 8:50 am

Opening remarks, Introductions, Orientation to Fairbanks

Jia Wang                  Workshop Arrangement

                                      Paul Reichardt          Provost of UAF

                                      Syun Akasofu            Founding Director of IARC

                                      Larry Hinzman          Deputy Director of IARC

8:50 am � 9:00 am

�Workshop Expectation� by John Walsh

9:00 am � 9:20 am

Group Photograph: Front steps of IARC Building

9:20 am � 11:00 am

Theme 1 Chair: John Walsh

Climate Modeling and Diagnostic Studies

(25 minutes, including 5 minutes for questions)

Akimasa Sumi:

Present Status and Future Direction of Climate Modeling in Japan

Akio Kitoh:

Changes in Snow Cover and Snow Water Equivalent Due to Global Warming Simulated by a 20km-mesh Global Atmospheric Model

Eiji Watanabe:

Artic Dipole Anomaly (DA) and its contribution to sea ice exports in the 20^th century

Kazuyuki Saito:

Hydro-thermal sensitivity of polar terrestrial climate to thermal soil representation evaluated by a 1-D model and a GCM

11:00 am � 11:10 am

Coffee Break

11:10 am � 12:40 pm

Jia Wang: Simulating the 20^th century Arctic climate variability using a global coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean model

Dirk Notz:

Impact of Arctic fresh-water sources on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Koji Terasaki:

Dynamical understanding of the Arctic Oscillation as a singular Eigenmode of the global atmosphere (poster 5 minutes)

Bill Hibler:

Modeling tidal and inertial variability in sea-ice drift and deformation: Climatic implications

12:40 pm � 1:40 pm

Lunch: IARC 5^th floor and personal time. A computer is available in 401 to check your e-mail.

1:40 pm � 2:40 pm

Group Discussion (Moderator Sumi; Rapporteur: Notz)

2:40 pm � 2:50 pm

Coffee break

2:50 pm � 4:30 pm

Theme 2 Chair: Akimasa Sumi

Processes Studies and Pan-Arctic Models

James Miller:

Modeling feedbacks between the water and energy budgets of the Arctic Ocean

Alex Hall:

Constraining snow albedo feedback with the seasonal cycle

Vladimir Alexeev:

Atmospheric heat transport and polar amplification

Jing Zhang:

Thermodynamic and Hydrological Impacts of Increasing Greenness in Northern High Latitudes

4:30 pm � 4:40 pm

Break

4:40 pm � 6:00 pm

Raghu Murtugudde:

An educational model for Earth System Prediction

Nori Tanaka:

Climate modeling toward the next novel level: Information exchange and humanosphere model

Kara Sterling:

CCSM simulations of Atlantic Oceanic Transport

6:00 pm � 8:00 pm

Poster Session, IARC Room 501

(7:20 pm � 7:40 pm) Invited Speaker � Dr. Larry Hinzman:

�Future Direction of IARC Arctic Climate Change Studies�

8:30 am � 10:10 am

Markus Meier:

The Rossby Centre regional model system applied to the Arctic

Wieslaw Maslowski:

Modeling Arctic Climate: Forcing, Feedbacks and Effects on Lower Latitudes

Changsheng Chen:

A new high-resolution unstructured grid finite-volume Arctic Ocean model (AO-FVCOM): Validation and application

Hideaki Kitauchi:

A Labrador Sea modeling studies by a coupled sea ice-ocean circulation model

10:10 am � 10:20 am

Coffee Break

10:20 am � 11:35 am

Koji Shimada:

Pacific Ocean inflow: Influence on catastrophic reduction of sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean

Michiyo Kawai:

Freshwater distribution, flux and residence time in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean: from observations

Jun Inoue:

Effect of summertime wind conditions on lateral and bottom melting in the central Arctic

11:40 am � 12:40 pm

Group Discussion (Moderator: Miller; Rapporteur: Hall)

12:40 pm � 1:40 pm

Lunch: IARC 5^th Floor

1:40 pm � 3:20 pm

Theme 3 Chair: Michael Winton

Climate Change Simulations and Projections

John Walsh:

Spatial variability of recent and projected warming in the IPCC models

Fuyuki Saito:

Response of Greenland Ice Sheet to the Global Warming Simulated by a GCM coupled by an Ice Sheet Model

Sergey Venevsky:

Interaction between climate system, vegetation carbon, soil carbon, active layer thickness and fires, implementation into Earth System models

Masahide Kimoto:

High-resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling for climate studies        

3:20 pm � 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm � 4:45 pm

Michael Winton:

How does surface albedo feedback affect Arctic climate change?

Vladimir Kattsov:

Arctic climate dynamics in the context of global warming: an interplay of the change and variability in AOGCM simulations

Masaru Inatsu:

An aspect of stratospheric and tropospheric global warming response in an atmosphere-ocean coupled GCM

4:45 pm � 5:00 pm

         Coffee Break

5:00 pm � 6:00 pm

Group Discussion (Moderator: John Walsh; Rapporteur: Winton)

Free time, dinner on your own

8:30 am � 10:30 am

IARC-JAMSTEC Research Project Review

Chair: Syun Akasofu

Jia Wang:

Ice-Ocean-Ecosystem Modeling

Igor Polyakov:

Arctic Ocean Modeling and Observations

Yongwon Kim:

Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling and Observations

Xiangdong Zhang:

Arctic Atmosphere: Weather and climate variability, Models, and Observations

10:30 am � 10:40 am

Coffee Break

10:40 am � 12:00 pm

Breakout Discussion of Priorities and IARC�s role in relation to the Priorities

(including possibility of developing the Arctic ESM)

Theme 1

Rapporteur: Notz

IARC Room 417

Theme 2

Rapporteur: Hall

IARC Room 401

Theme 3

Rapporteur: Winton

IARC 5^th Floor

12:00 pm � 12:40 pm

Report by each rapporteur (10 minutes each)

Wrap-up by Sumi/Walsh/Wang

Adjourn

12:40 pm � 1:40 pm

Lunch: IARC 5^th Floor

2:30 � 6:00 pm

JRC (JAMSTEC Review Committee) Meeting

Or

Field trip (for the participants) to UAF Large Animal Research Station.

Meet bus in front of IARC building.

Free time, dinner on your own