Shipboard physical oceanographic observation in the Argo era

Update: 07. 30, 2012

(Aug. 2-3, 2012)

Date: August 2. 2012 (Thu) 10:00 - 17:30
     August 3. 2012 (Fri)  9:00 - 12:30
Venue: Auditorium
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
   5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi,Chiba 277-8564, JAPAN
   Tel: +81-4-7136-6011
Convener: Eitarou Oka (AORI, Univ. Tokyo, eoka[at]aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Shinya Kouketsu (JAMSTEC, skoukestu[at]stec.go.jp)

August 2
 10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks
     Eitarou Oka (AORI, Univ. Tokyo), Shinya Kouketsu (JAMSTEC)

Chair: Kaoru Ichikawa (RIAM, Kyushu Univ.)
 10:10 - 10:35 New developments of multi-observation in the Kuroshio Extension region
     °Kosei Komatsu (Grad. School of Frontier Sciences, Univ. Tokyo), Ichiro Yasuda, Sachihiko Itoh, Tohru Ikeya, Hitoshi Kaneko (AORI, Univ. Tokyo), Masahiro Yagi (NEC), Satoshi Osafune (JAMSTEC), Kiyotaka Hidaka (NRIFS), and Haruka Nishikawa (JAMSTEC)
 10:35 - 11:00 Estimation of meridional heat transport in the North Pacific subtropical region using JMA repeat observation data and Argo float data
     °Kiyoshi Murakami, Sho Hibino, Toshiya Nakano, Yoshikazu Fukuda, Tomoyuki Kitamura (JMA), and Hiroyuki Tsujino (MRI)
 11:00 - 11:25 Physical oceanographic process study for the Okinawa Trough and its future evolution
     °Hirohiko Nakamura and Ayako Nishina (Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima Univ.)
 11:25 - 11:50 Mode water research based on Argo, shipboard observation, and high-resolution numerical model
     Eitarou Oka (AORI, Univ. Tokyo)

Lunch

Chair: Katsuro Katsumata (JASMTEC)
 13:00 - 13:25 Tropical ocean mooring buoy observation in the Argo era and its result
     °Takanori Horii and Takuya Hasegawa (JAMSTEC)
 13:25 - 13:50 Significance of research vessel for future atmospheric studies
     °Yoshimi Kawai, Jun Inoue, Kunio Yoneyama, and Masaki Katsumata (JAMSTEC)
 13:50 - 14:15 Ocean observation by R/V Wakataka-maru of TNFRI
     °Taku Wagawa, Shin-ichi Ito (TNFRI), Yugo Shimizu (NRIFS), and Shigeho Kakehi (TNFRI), and Kazuyuki Uehara (Tokai Univ.)
 14:15 - 14:40 Estimation of flow field in the western subarctic region using shipboard and satellite observations
     °Akira Nagano, Masahide Wakita, and Shuichi Watanabe (JAMSTEC)
 14:40 - 15:05 Physical oceanographic observation in T/S Oshoro-maru cruises in the northern North Pacific
     °Hiromichi Ueno and Hiroji Onishi (Grad. School of Fisheries Science, Hokkaido Univ.)

Break

Chair: Taku Wagawa (TNFRI)
 15:25 - 15:50 Shipboard observation in the Arctic Ocean: “Mirai” and ice breaking vessel
     °Takashi Kikuchi, Shigeto Nishino, Motoyo Itoh, and Yusuke Kawaguchi (JAMSTEC)
 15:50 - 16:15 Turbulence measurements in the Southern Ocean
     °Yujiro Kitade, Daisuke Hirano (Tokyo Univ. of Marine Science and Technology), and Keishi Shimada (Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido Univ.)
 16:15 - 16:40 Mirai Southern Ocean Observation
     Katsuro Katsumata (JAMSTEC)
 16:40 - 17:05 Present situation of ocean observation by the Japan Coast Guard
     °Issei Nishimura and Koshiro Oikawa (Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard)
 17:05 - 17:30 How remote sensing and shipboard observation have compounded ?
     Kaoru Ichikawa (RIAM, Kyushu Univ.)

17:45 - 20:00 Reception (Lobby on the 1st floor of AORI building)

August 3

Chair: Hiromichi Ueno (Grad. School of Fisheries Science, Hokkaido Univ.)
 09:00 - 09:25 Physical oceanography in coastal and shelf regions  -Evolution and limitation in the Argo era-
     Atsuhiko Isobe (CMES, Ehime Univ.)
 09:25 - 09:50 Observation of vertical processes in shelf regions
     °Takeshi Matsuno, Takahiro Endoh (RIAM, Kyushu Univ.), and Joji Ishizaka (HyARC, Nagoya Univ.)
 09:50 - 10:15 Designing of monitoring observation in coastal regions
     °Yutaka Michida and Kiyoshi Tanaka (AORI, Univ. Tokyo)
 10:15 - 10:40 Importance and problems of shipboard observation study in the Japan Sea
     Tomoharu Senjyu (RIAM, Kyushu Univ.)
 10:40 - 11:05 Observational study of Antarctic Bottom Water using mooring system
     °Yasushi Fukamachi, Shigeru Aoki, Kay I. Ohshima, and Yoshimasa Matsumura (Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido Univ.)
 11:05 - 11:30 Deep circulation -measuring below Argo-
     °Shinzou Fujio and Daigo Yanagimoto (AORI, Univ. Tokyo)
 11:30 - 11:55 Challenge to deep-ocean turbulence using the first multi-scale profiler in Japan
     °Toshiyuki Hibiya, Yuki Tanaka, Taira Nagai, Takashi Ijichi, and Tomoaki Takagi (Grad. School of Science, Univ. Tokyo)
Chai:  Eitarou Oka (AORI, Univ. Tokyo) and Shinya Kouketsu (JAMSTEC)
 11:55 - 12:30 General discussion
        　Commentator: Shigeki Hosoda (JAMSTEC) and Hiroyasu Hasumi (AORI, Univ. Tokyo)