ISSI Team 217

Third Meeting

Agenda

• Monday, 14 October 2013
• Larisa Goncharenko: Introduction and overview
  
• Topic: Modelling of SSW 2009
  
• Nick Pedatella: 4-model comparison of SSW 2009
• Hauke Schmidt: The 2009 SSW as simulated by HAMMONIA under different nudging approaches
• SSW and MLT region
  
• Peter Hoffmann: Mesospheric winds and waves during SSW 2013 in relation to 2009 and 2010
• Larisa Goncharenko:MLT winds at mid-latitude during SSW (analysis of Millstone Hill data in the lower thermosphere)
• Satonori Nozawa: Changes in the polar lower thermosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere due to a SSW event ~ A case study of the January 2012 event
• Tuesday, 15 October 2013
• Topic: Polar vortex and instabilities
  
• Klemens Hocke: Visits of the polar vortex to Bern
• Christoph Zülicke: Do split stratospheric vortexes reach higher? Diagnostics of model data and observations
• Klemens Hocke: 20-day period standing oscillation of the Northern stratospheric vortex
  
• Vivien Matthias: The impact of planetary waves on the latitudinal displacement of sudden stratospheric warmings
• Topic: Atmospheric chemistry and dynamics
  
• Beth Proedrou: Stratospheric response to a lower tropospheric heating pixel investigated with WACCM
  
• Bernd Funke: Vertical distribution of CO2 and CO in the MLT from observations (MIPAS, ACE) and the WACCM
  
• Ansgar Schanz: The Daily Ozone Cycle in the Stratosphere modeled by a 3D Chemistry Climate Model (WACCM)
  
• Wednesday, 16 October 2013
• Discussion: Where do we go from here (this is our last ISSI meeting
• Topic: Atmospheric chemistry and dynamics(continued)
• Brigitte Tschanz: Water vapor measurements in 2010, 2012, 2013
  
• Bernd Funke: Impact of SSW and elevated stratopause in SABER T and O3 data
  
• Afternoon trip
  
• Thursday, Oct 17 October 2013
• Topic: SSW and ionosphere
  
• Nick Pedatella: Impact of different tidal changes on the ionosphere response
  
• Koki Chau: Vertical drifts observations and their anomalies during SSW
  
• Larisa Goncharenko: SSW 2013 and ionosphere (focus on low-latitude ionosphere and vertical drifts + TEC)
  
• Tim Fuller-Rowell: WAM simulations of SSW for low and high solar activity (remotely)
  
• Nick+Larisa – kick-off discussion on other mechanisms for lower/upper atmosphere coupling
• Supplementary information
  
• Vivien Matthias: Fall transition in the MLT region
  
• Larisa Goncharenko: NASA LWS SSW effort
  
• Data exchange
  
• Discussions
  
• Friday, 18 October 2013
  
• Small group discussions