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 Assessing the Effects of Submesoscale Ocean Parameterizations

AESOP Planning Workshop

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When: March 8–9, 2005
Where: Hardisty Conference Center

Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington
Goals:
  1. Give participants a common understanding of program goals, issues to be addressed and what work has been and is being done
  2. Refine goals to fit resources available
  3. Setup mixing process team or teams
  4. Develop combined ship schedule to present to UNOLS
The overall goal of the AESOP Departmental Research Initiative (DRI) is to create an intellectual framework for assessing the impact of submesoscale ocean parameterizations on synoptic predictions of the ocean state using numerical models. The primary focus of this effort will be on developing metrics and methods of assessing existing parameterizations and consequent improvements, rather than the development of new parameterizations.

AESOP is funded and managed by the Physical Oceanography (322PO) program at the Office of Naval Research, with assistance from Marine Meteorology (322MM), Ocean Acoustics (321OA), and Optics and Biology (322OB).

The workshop seeks to facilitate the cooperation and collaborations between numerical modelers, process modelers, observational oceanographers, and theoreticians that will be necessary for AESOP to succeed.