Schedule (pdf) - University of Toronto

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Programme for the 5th Annual C-SPARC Workshop
Monday December 6 - Tuesday December 7, 2010
University of Toronto Faculty Club
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C7
Monday December 6 - Continental Breakfast beginning at 9:00
C-SPARC Accomplishments, Future Science Opportunities and Needs
Ted Shepherd,
University of Toronto
Ted Shepherd,
University of Toronto
Coffee Break
Paul Kushner,
University of Toronto
John Scinocca,
Environment Canada
Saroja Polavarapu,
Environment Canada
Lunch
Coffee Break
Panel Discussion continued
18 years of CMAM: Historical perspective and
lessons learned
Chemistry-climate coupling and modelmeasurement
comparison
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling
Climate projections
Data assimilation
Panel Discussion on SPARC-Related Science
Panel Discussion (with audience participation) on the future of SPARCrelated
science, from an international and Canadian perspective, led off
by brief remarks as follows
• Ted Shepherd (U Toronto): WCRP SPARC perspective
• Stella Melo (CSA): Canadian Space Agency perspective and
priorities (Capacity Building)
• Thomas Piekutowski (CSA): Canadian Space Agency perspective
and priorities (Data Utilization)
• Charles Lin (EC): Environment Canada perspective and priorities
Complimentary cocktails and dinner (Faculty Club Pub)

Tuesday December 7 - Continental Breakfast beginning at 8:45
C-SPARC Science Talks
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David Plummer,
Environment Canada
Cathy Reader,
University of Victoria
David MacKenzie,
University of Toronto
Andreas Jonsson,
University of Toronto
Michaela Hegglin,
University of Toronto
Elham Farahani,
University of Toronto
Coffee Break
Victor Fomichev, York
University
Kirill Semeniuk, York
University
Rodica Lindenmaier,
University of Toronto
Stephen Beagley, York
University
Matthew Cooper,
Dalhousie University
Lunch
James Anstey,
University of Toronto
Andre Erler, University
of Toronto
Isla Simpson,
University of Toronto
Lawrence Mudryk,
University of Toronto
The state of tropospheric chemistry in CMAM - in
under the wire
The impact of stratospheric ozone depletion on
tropospheric ozone in the CMAM with
tropospheric chemistry
Sources of variability in the UTLS transition
region
Multiple linear regression analysis of
stratospheric temperature and ozone changes
O3-fluxes from CCMVal - a multi-model
comparison
Impact on human health of NH ozone changes
due to climate change
Status of the extended model: Mesospheric
ozone, geocorona, airglow
Solar cycle and ionizing particle precipitation
effect on water vapour in the TTL
Estimating the NOy budget over Eureka using
the Bruker 125HR and CMAM-DAS, GEM-BACH,
and SLIMCAT model results
OSIRIS and MLS ozone assimilation with the
CMAM-DAS system
ACE and OSIRIS evaluation and application to
ozone production efficiency
Modelling the quasi-biennial oscillation
The structure of the tropopause and
extratropical tropopause transition layer
The response of the tropical lower stratosphere
to ENSO
Sources of annular mode time scales

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Peter Hitchcock,
University of Toronto
Shuzhan Ren,
University of Toronto
Coffee Break
Charles McLandress,
University of Toronto
Michael Sigmond,
University of Toronto
Lei Wang, University of
Toronto
Ted Shepherd,
University of Toronto
Seasonally coherent recoveries from
stratospheric sudden warmings
Diagnostics of the 2006 stratospheric sudden
warming
Separating the effects of climate change and
ozone depletion on the SH tropospheric
The circulation separate effects of ozone depletion and
increasing greenhouse gases on the southern
ocean and Antarctic sea ice trends
Controls by the zonal mean circulation on the
stationary wave response to climate change
A robust mechanism for a strengthened
stratospheric circulation under climate change