Solomon Sea Workshop
Solomon Sea Oceanography Workshop
Toulouse, France
2-3 May 2017
Salle Lyot, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse
Workshop Goals:
- To foster interaction between researchers interested in Solomon Sea processes from different disciplines
- To discuss plans for future possible collaborative studies
- To develop complementary approaches for the purpose of
- Developing strategies for determination of transport variability (and associated errors) of the Low-Latitude Boundary Currents
- Better understanding of water mass enrichments, transformations and variability in the Solomon Sea from physical and biogeochemical data
Abstracts
Agenda
2 May 2017
Session 1: Context and objectives of the workshop
09:00 - 9:30 Welcome and discussion of workshop goals (Sophie Cravatte/Janet Sprintall) PDF
- Objectives of the SPICE program
- Focus on the SPICE Solomon Sea
- Overview of the observations undertaken as part of SPICE Solomon Sea (Chapeau paper)
- Overview of agenda talks to be given (talks include time for Q&A)
- Expected outcomes: links to TPOS-2020 and future programs
09:30 - 10:00 Plenary Talk - Physics: C. Germineaud. Thermocline and Intermediate circulation in the Solomon Sea, PDF
10:00 - 10:30 Plenary Talk - Geochemistry: C. Jeandel. Marine geochemistry as part of PANDORA cruise, PDF
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea and poster session
Session 2: Seasonal and interannual variability of transports (Chair: A. Ganachaud)
11:00 - 11:25 A. Melet: Interannual variability of Solomon Sea’s circulations, heat transports, and water masses transformations., PDF
11:25 - 11:50 W. Kessler: Nine years of glider surveys of the Solomon Sea, PDF
11:50 - 12:15 U. Send: Integrating transport observations of Solomon Sea inflow from end-point time series, PDF
12:15 - 12:45 C. Germineaud and M. Alberty: Outflow transports from moorings: preliminary results
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
Session 3: Downstream Impacts of the Solomon Sea LLWBC on the tropical Pacific Ocean (Chair: M. Alberty)
14:20 - 14:40: M. Grenier (S. Cravatte): Origins and fates of the southwestern boundary currents: from the subduction areas to the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent, PDF
14:40 - 15:10: Plenary Talk - A. Sen Gupta: Using virtual particles to understand tropical Pacific circulation and biogeochemical change, PDF
15:10 - 15:30 F. Lacan: Iron enrichment in the Southwest Pacific from iron isotopes
15:30 - 15:50 T. Delcroix: SST and SSS seasonal changes in the western Solomon and Bismarck Seas, PDF
15:50/16:20 afternoon tea and poster session
16:20 - 17:30 Discussion (Chairs: B. Kessler and J. Sprintall) Developing strategies for determination of transport variability (and associated errors) of mass, heat, freshwater and nutrients in the Low-Latitude Boundary Current system of the Solomon Sea.
19:50 Workshop Dinner (no-host):
3 May 2017
Session 4: Small-scale processes, mixing and enrichments (Chair : C. Germineaud )
09:10 - 09:40 Plenary Talk - M. Alberty: Spatial patterns of mixing in the Solomon Sea, PDF
09:40 - 10:00 M. Tchilibou: Internal tides in the Solomon Sea, PDF
10:00 - 10:20 L. Gourdeau: Exploring mesoscale eddies in the Solomon Sea, PDF
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea and poster session
11:00 - 11:30: Plenary Talk - C. Jeandel (for S. Bonnet) Biogeochemistry: N2 fixation rates in the Coral and Solomon Sea, PDF
11:30 - 11:50 MH Radenac: Wind-driven changes of surface current, temperature, and chlorophyll observed by satellites north of New Guinea, PDF
11:50 - 12:10 V. Pham: REE in the Solomon Sea, PDF
12:10 - 12:30: P. Van Beek: Radium isotopes and actinium-227 used as tracers of water masses and mixing processes in the Solomon Sea, PDF
12:30- 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Discussion (Chairs: C. Jeandel and S. Cravatte): Better understanding of water mass enrichment, transformation and variability in the Solomon Sea from physical and biogeochemical data
15:30 - 16:30 Future Plans (all - observational and model analysis and collaborative)
16:30 - 17:00 Workshop wrap-up and next steps (Sophie Cravatte/Janet Sprintall)
Conclusions and Wrap-up: PDF
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