EMIC WORKSHOP, 20-21 February, 2006, Melbourne -- Final Program
A Workshop On Earth System Models Of Intermediate Complexity
Monday 20th & Tuesday 21st
February 2006
at the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre,
Melbourne, Australia
Tentative
to be followed by a workshop on the status of terrestrial and marine palaeorecords at the Royal Society of VictoriaMonday 20th February
[Also Day One of the British Council Young Scientists workshop on Abrupt Change]
9:00
am Welcome and Intro - Amanda Lynch
9:15 am Welcome
to Young Scientists - Will Steffen
Setting
the scene: Data
Session Chair: Ian Simmonds
9:25 am Peter Kershaw: Compilation
and analysis of proxy records of climate and vegetation for the Australasian
region over the last glacial cycle
9:55 am
Neville Nicholls: Relationships
between climate variables in the instrumental record. Implications
for palaeoclimatic research
10:25 am BREAK
10:45 am David Etheridge: Long
term atmospheric composition data for constraints of EMICs
11:15 am Joëlle Gergis: Reconstructing
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO): integrating evidence from tree-ring,
coral, ice core and documentary palaeoarchives, A.D. 1525-2002.
11:45 am Kate Harle: The key ways that palaeo-science can
constrain uncertainties about climate change and its potential impacts
in Australia
12:15 am Panel discussion - What are the
outstanding needs for palaeoclimate modeling in Australian and global
palaeodata?
Chair: Ian Simmonds Panellists: Peter Kershaw,
Neville Nicholls, Kate Harle, David Etheridge, ...
12:45 pm LUNCH
Palaeoclimate Modeling
Strategies
Session chair: Will Steffen
2:00 pm Lawrence Mysak: Glacial
Inceptions: Past and Future
2:45 pm Klaus
Dethloff: Limits
of atmospheric models for climate simulations
3:30 pm BREAK
3:50 pm Ian Simmonds: Simplified
treatments for the simulation of oxygen isotopic concentration of
ocean waters
4:20 pm Matthew England: Global Ocean Thermohaline
Circulation studies using the University of Victoria (Canada) EMIC
4:50 pm Jozef Syktus: The
Relative role of orbital and CO2 forcing in the interglacial to early
glacial transition: Implications for the next glacial cycle.
5:20 pm CLOSE
Tuesday 21st February
Palaeoclimate Modeling
of the Southern Hemisphere
Session chair:
Amanda Lynch
9:00 am Andrew Marshall: Simulation
of the Australian Monsoon by the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model
9:30 am Richard Wardle: Modelled
changes to Southern Hemisphere synoptic activity in the Late Quaternary
10:00 am Pandora Hope: The
results of the PMIP I models forced with prescribed SSTs in the Southern
Hemisphere
10:30 am BREAK
11:00
am Steven Phipps: An
efficient and portable climate system model for studying past, present
and future climate
11:30 am Panel discussion
- What are the outstanding needs for Australian palaeoclimate modeling
activities in model and computation resources?
Chair:
Amanda Lynch Panellists: Ian Simmonds, Matthew England, Richard Wardle,
Andrew Marshall, Steven Phipps, Jozef Syktus, ...
12:30
WORKSHOP CLOSE