Bornö Workshop 2015

Watermass Transformation

Topic

The Bornö Workshop 2015 was focused on watermass transformation. Presentations of current research was given during the day, followed up with discussion on past, present and future challenges.

In mornings, breaks and afternoons, CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) and ADCP (accoustic doppler current profiler) measurements were made off the bridge (see results below). Unfortunately, equipment damage put an early end to measurements.

In the afternoons, there were presentations about the participants' current research.

Place and Time

Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31 at Bornö Stationen, a small retreat in Sweden (see on map).

Group Picture

From left: Carsten Eden, Philipp Jurgenowski, Hannah Kleppin, Claudia Wekerle, Manita Chouksey, Martin Losch, Søren Nielsen, Markus Jochum, Dirk Olbers, Friederike Pollmann and Sergey Danilov.

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Support

The workshop was funded by the Alfred Wegener Institute, CLiSAP, and the Niels Bohr Institute.

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Schedule

Mon

Martin Losch: Sea ice dynamics in climate models: rheology and solution techniques

Tue

Dirk Olbers: Internal gravity waves: kinematics, forcing and energetics
Carsten Eden: Modelling gravity wave drag in the ocean
Manita Chouksey: Dissipation of meso-scale eddies
Friederike Pollmann: Validation of IDEMIX through a comparison with Argo-based estimates of turbulent dissipation rates

Wed

Markus Jochum: The connection between Southern Ocean Winds, Atlantic Meridional Overturning, and Indo-Pacific Upwelling
Philipp Jurgenowski: Wind-driven radiation of internal waves from the surface mixed layer
Hannah Kleppin: Stochastic atmospheric forcing as cause for Greenland climate transitions

Thu

Sergey Danilov: On resolving mesoscale eddies
Claudia Werkele: Pathways of Atlantic Waters into the Arctic Ocean: high resolution ocean and sea-ice simulations
Søren Nielsen: The Atlantic layer temperature bias in CCSM

Breakfast at 8am, lunch at 12:30pm, dinner at 7pm.

CTD Measurements

Vertical casts (time vs. depth) of temperature, salinity, density anomaly (sigma), and oxygen concentration from 27 July onward.

ADCP measurements

Velocities from ADCP measurements at 4 different depths.