September, 2016
CLIVAR Open Science Conference
“Charting the course for climate and ocean research”
18-25 September 2016
Qingdao, China
Highlights that you will not want to miss
Early Career Scientists
On the 18th, 24th and 25th of September the place to be is the CLIVAR Early Career Scientists Symposium, organized for and by early career researchers. There will be different sessions and working groups covering climate research topics. On the last day there will be a session about early career networks in the global research community. The Early Career Scientists Symposium is only open to participants who applied and were accepted.
Look out for a lunch time workshop on better science communication run by Ed Hawkins (University of Reading, UK). That workshop will be open to all.
Monday 19 September
10.00 OPENING CEREMONY. Co-chair Lixin Wu will welcome everyone to Qingdao.
11.00 KEYNOTE. Thomas Stocker will talk about anthropogenic climate change, and about why it is time to focus on the ocean.
11.45 GROUP PHOTO
14.00 Talks on the ocean’s role in the climate system
16.00 Parallel sessions on energy, carbon and water
19.00 ICEBREAKER. A great opportunity for productive discussions
Tuesday 20 September
9.00 Talks on climate variability and predictability.
14.00 Parallel sessions on intraseasonal to interannual, decadal and centennial to millennial.
16.00 POSTER SESSION.
17.00 KEYNOTE. Magdalena Balmaseda talks about seamless prediction and the interactions of time scales, earth system components and institutions.
18.00 Town halls on YMC and WPOS, ocean observing satellites and PAGES.
19.30 Town halls on Indo-pacific teleconnection, WCRP and glacier melt.
19.30 TOWN HALL 5. The World Climate Research Programme will discuss the future of the Programme. As a community driven programme, it is important that members of the research community come along and have input into where WCRP is headed in the next decade and beyond.
Wednesday 21 September
9.00 Talks on understanding ocean and climate processes.
14.00 Parallel sessions on mixing and stirring, ocean and climate dynamics, upwelling and frontal zones.
16.00 POSTER SESSION.
17.00 KEYNOTE. Jennifer MacKinnon discusses the elephant and the mouse: multiple scales of ocean dynamics. I wonder if there will be animal themed slides?
18.00 Town halls on HighResMIP and CLIVAR.
18.00 TOWN HALL 8. CLIVAR will discuss its Science Plan. Come along and see how your research fits into the new CLIVAR strategy.
19.30 Town halls on FutureEarth, and ocean and climate modelling
Thursday 22 September
9.00 Talks on the ocean in a warmer world.
14.00 Parallel sessions on climate modes, sea level, boundary climate systems.
16.00 POSTER SESSION and town hall on ocean observing.
17.00 KEYNOTE. Wenju Cai will talk about ENSO and greenhouse warming.
19.00 BANQUET.
Friday 23 September
9.00 Talks and panel discussion on climate information and sustainable development.
11.00 Talks and panel discussion on the future of climate and ocean science.
11.40 Come and hear what Guy Brasseur has to say about the future of climate and ocean science.
12.30 CLOSING CEREMONY.
HAVE A REALLY GREAT MEETING!