Ocean and Climate Forum

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Ocean and Climate Forum Friday, April 11,
2008 and Saturday, April 12, 2008Sponsored by
theYIBS Center for the Study of Global
ChangeKline Geology Laboratory Room 123210
Whitney Avenue
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008 145 PM 200 PMSession
Chair Karl Turekian, Yale UniversityIntroductio
n 200 PM 300 PMDavid Marshall, Oxford
UniversityOcean circulation Theory and
challenges 300 PM 330 PM COFFEE
BREAK 330 PM 430 PM Fiamma Straneo, Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution What is the role
of dense water formation in the global ocean
circulation and climate? 430 PM 530
PM Jennifer MacKinnon, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography Ocean small-scale mixing and
internal waves 530 PM 600 PM Reception KGL
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SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2008 830 AM 900
AMContinental Breakfast Session Chair Alexy
Fedorov, Yale University 900 AM 1000
AMHarry Bryden, University of Southhampton The
Atlantic meridional overturning
circulation 1000 AM 1030 AM COFFEE
BREAK 1030 AM 1130 AMMary-Louise
Timmermans, Woods Hole Oceanographic
InstitutionArtic Ocean circulation and
climate 1130 AM 1230 PM Agatha de Boer,
University of East Anglia The Southern Ocean and
climate 1230 PM 130 PM LUNCH Session
Chair Steve Sherwood, Yale University 130 PM
230 PM Steve Griffies, GFDL, Princeton Physical
problems in simulating the ocean climate 230 PM
300 PM COFFEE BREAK 300 PM 400
PM Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of
Technology Interannual to decadal variability in
the Indian Ocean 400 PM 500 PM Niklas
Schneider, University of Hawaii Pacific Ocean
climate variability and circulation
Sponsored by The Yale Institute for Biospheric
StudiesCenter for the Study of Global
Change Supported by funding from ExxonMobil