Programme (pdf)
The final programme is can be found here.
The list of presentations given in pdf format is available here .
The list of associated abstract is here. The list of presentations given in pdf format is available here .
Wednesday 3rd 2017
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Registration and coffee |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Welcome from IUEM (Anne-Marie Treguier) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Presentation of the meeting: Pascale Lherminier and Didier Swingedouw |
Session 1: Instrumental observations of the AMOC (chair: Pascale Lherminier & Patricia Zunino)
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Herlé Mercier: OVIDE-A25, a biennial hydrographic transect across the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre since 2002: Overview of the main scientific findings about the variability of the meridional overturning circulation and its impact on the CO2 physical pump |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Alain Colin de Verdière: Calculation of the mean Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation with Argo floats and temperature-salinity data | 11:20 - 11:40 | Robin Waldman: Comparison of conditions of oceanic deep convection between the Irminger and Northwestern Mediterranean Seas |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Gerard McCarthy: AMOC variability from decades to multi-decades |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Andrew Friedman: Investigating a new record of Atlantic sea surface salinity from 1896–2013 |
| 12:30 - 14:10 | Lunch break and poster session 1 |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Lidia Carracedo: AMOC-driven nutrient flux variability across the RAPID-26N section |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Discussion ending session 1 |
Session 2: Paleo-climatic reconstructions of the AMOC (Chair: Laurence Vidal & Aurélie Penaud)
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Claire Waelbroeck: Reconstructing the dynamics of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation changes over the last 40 ky |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Meryem Mojtahid: Do benthic foraminifera and their geochemical signature from the Celtic margin differentiate the effects of European and Laurentide Ice Sheets meltwaters on the AMOC across Termination 1? |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Frédérique Eynaud: The Bay of Biscay: a key spot for past AMOC reconstructions |
| 16:10 - 17:00 | Coffee break and poster session 2 |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Aline Govin: Dynamics of North Atlantic deep currents from the onset to the demise of the Last Interglacial period (145-110 ka) |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Mélanie Wary: Regional seesaw between North Atlantic and Nordic Seas during the last glacial abrupt climatic events |
| 17:50 - 18:20 | Discussion ending session 2 |
Thursday 4th 2017
Session 3: What are the AMOC drivers? Theoretical approaches (chair: Alain Colin de Verdière & Olivier Arzel)
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Rémi Tailleux: On the buoyancy-driven theory of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Olivier Arzel: Determination of diapycnal mixing rates in the world ocean from a T/S climatology |
| 9:20 - 9:50 | Thierry Huck: Oceanic control of multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Florian Sévellec: Arctic climate change driving a decline in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Discussion ending session 3 |
Session 4: Lessons from numerical modelling of the ocean and climate for the AMOC dynamics (chair: Claude Talandier & Anne Marie-Tréguier)
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Claus Böning: Mechanisms of seasonal to decadal AMOC variability |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Clotilde Dubois: The Atlantic Meridional Overturning in the ocean reanalysis |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Didier Swingedouw: Impact of freshwater release in the Mediterranean Sea on the AMOC |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Eric Chassignet: Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability in forced versus coupled simulations |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Thierry Penduff: Intrinsic and atmospherically-forced variability of the AMOC: insights from a large ensemble ocean hindcast |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Camille Lique: Potential for deep convection in the Arctic Basin under a warming climate and contribution to the AMOC |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Discussion ending session 4 |
| 15:40 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
Session 5: Climatic impact and implication of AMOC variations (chair: Didier Swingedouw & Frédérique Eynaud)
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Juliette Mignot: AMOC variability and predictability in climate models |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Yohan Ruprich-Robert: Impacts of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability on the tropical climate and tropical cyclone activity |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Matthew Menary: An anatomy of the projected North Atlantic warming hole in CMIP5 models |
| 18:00 | Departure for the conference dinner at Oceanopolis (Aquarium in Brest). |
Friday 5th 2017
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Leon Hermanson: Predicting the high latitude AMOC and its impacts |
| 9:30 - 9:50 | Guillaume Gastineau: Role of ocean-atmosphere coupling for AMOC decadal variability |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Claude Frankignoul: On the wintertime atmospheric response to the AMOC variability |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Gwendal Rivière: The impact of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation onto the Northern Hemisphere storm tracks during the Twentieth Century |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Martin Menegoz: Modulation of the climate response to a volcanic eruption by the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Discussion ending session 5 |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | General discussion and conclusions closing the meeting |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch and poster session 5 |
| 14:30 | End of the meeting |