7th Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics - Estimating Ocean Transports: Single Sections, Box Models and Reanalysis Products

Administration

Description

The call for application is now closed.

The School will introduce participants, with an emphasis on attendees from the Global South, to the GO-SHIP program, inverse models, international programs for observing systems, reanalysis products, and will stimulate their scientific involvement within existing programs.

The School will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge in order to use, manipulate and analyze oceanographic data. The aims are threefold: (i) to use datasets from the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) and inverse modelling techniques to compute oceanic transports; (ii) to analyze existing Atlantic observational arrays (e.g., OSNAP, RAPID, MOVE, SAMBA/SAMOC); (iii) to complement observational products with a variety of ocean reanalysis.
The School, organized over a 10-day period as an in-person event, will include theoretical lectures on the current state of knowledge as well as practical sessions with the development of student projects to provide a hands-on approach to the understanding of the material presented in the lectures.

Topics:

Inverse models
Observational time series
Ocean models and reanalysis

Speakers:
D. Iovino, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy
M. P. Chidichimo, CONICET, UNSAM, Argentina
P. Polito, University of São Paulo Oceanographic Institute, Brazil
O. T. Sato, University of São Paulo Oceanographic Institute, Brazil
B. Sloyan, CSIRO, Australia
A. Storto, CNR - ISMAR, Italy
L. D. Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA
P. Velez Belchí, IEO‑CSIC, Spain
C. Yang, CNR - ISMAR, Italy

Research abstracts: In the application form, all applicants are requested to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation and/or contributed talk. Please use ICTP templates available for download here and below under 'Material'.

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

Material

Abstract Templates Booklets List of Participants Poster group photo

7th Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics - Estimating Ocean Transports: Single Sections, Box Models and Reanalysis Products | (smr 4224)

Go to day

Monday, 29 June 2026

08:30 - 09:00 Registration Formalities

REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities in the lobby. The Registration Desk will be open in the morning starting from 08:30.

09:00 - 19:00

09:00 GO-SHIP: general introduction 1h0'

Speaker:	V. Cainzos (Georgia Tech)
Material:	Slides

10:00 Coffee Break 30'

10:30 Data processing - observational pathway from collection to quality assured/control data sets 1h0'

Speaker:	B. Sloyan (CSIRO)
Material:	Slides

11:30 GO-SHIP: data and programs - Part I 1h0'

The lecture will be held in the InfoLab

Speaker:	C. Arumi (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 GO-SHIP: data and programs - Part II 1h0'
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Speaker: C. Arumi (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 Research Projects 2h0'
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18:00 Posters & Drinks 1h0'

Tuesday, 30 June 2026

09:00 - 20:00

09:00 Introduction to inverse models and developments in oceanography 1h0'

Speaker: A. Hernandez (ULPGC)
10:00 Coffee Break 30'

10:30 Inverse models: applications 1h0'

Speaker:	A. Hernandez
Material:	Slides

11:30 Inverse model applications - Part I 1h0'

The lecture will be held in the InfoLab

Speaker:	V. Caínzos (Georgia Tech)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 Inverse model applications - Part II 1h0'
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Speaker: V. Caínzos (Georgia Tech)
15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 Research Projects 2h0'
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19:00 Welcome Reception 1h0'

All Participants are cordially invited to the Welcome Reception.

PLEASE NOTE: The reception will be held at the Adriatico Guesthouse Cafeteria.

Wednesday, 1 July 2026

09:00 - 19:00

09:00 Ocean observational platforms 1h0'

Speaker:	B. Sloyan (CSIRO)
Material:	Slides

10:00 Coffee Break 30'

10:30 A Practical Introduction to Wavelets - Part I 1h0'

The lecture will be held in the InfoLab

Speaker:	P. Polito (Universidade de São Paulo Instituto Oceanográfico)
Material:	Slides

11:30 A Practical Introduction to Wavelets - Part II 1h0'
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Speaker: P. Polito (Universidade de São Paulo Instituto Oceanográfico)
12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 Research Projects 1h0'
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15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 Research Projects 2h0'
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18:00 Posters & Drinks 1h0'

Thursday, 2 July 2026

09:00 - 18:00

09:00 The Argo Program: General introduction and the dataset 1h0'

Speaker:	P. Vélez (IEO-CSIC)
Material:	Slides

10:00 Coffee Break 30'
10:30 The Argo Program: Access and quality of the Argo data 1h0'

Speaker: P. Vélez (IEO-CSIC)

11:30 The Global Ocean Heat Balance 1h0'

Speaker:	O. Sato (University of São Paulo Oceanographic Institute)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 Oceanic Heat Storage calculations from Altimeter Data 1h0'
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Speaker: O. Sato (University of São Paulo Oceanographic Institute)
15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 Research Projects 2h0'
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Friday, 3 July 2026

09:00 - 18:00

09:00 Ocean reanalyses and their use in support of ocean transport assessment studies 1h0'

Speaker:	C. Yang (CNR - ISMAR)
Material:	Slides

10:00 Coffee Break 30'

10:30 Marine Environment Reanalysis - Evaluation Project 30'

Speaker:	C. Yang (CNR - ISMAR)
Material:	Slides

11:00 StraitFlux 1h30'

Speaker:	S. Winkelbauer (University of Vienna)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 Research Projects 1h0'
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15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 Research Projects 2h0'
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Monday, 6 July 2026
- 09:00 - 18:00
  - 09:00 Diagnosing the mean global ocean overturning circulation and property budgets from hydrographic section data 1h0'
    
    Speaker: L. Talley (University of California)
  - 10:00 Group Photo 10'
  - 10:10 Coffee Break 20'
  - 10:30 Circulation and property transport changes diagnosed from ocean hydrographic observations: AMOC and ‘SOOC’ 2h0'
    
    Speaker: L. Talley (University of California)
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
  - 14:30 Research Projects 1h0'
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  - 15:30 Coffee break 30'
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Tuesday, 7 July 2026

09:00 - 22:30

09:00 Ocean circulation variability and property changes in the South Atlantic from transport mooring arrays, blended products, Argo, and reanalysis products 1h0'

Speaker:

M.P. Chidichimo (National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) Escuela de Hábitat y Sostenibilidad)

10:00 Coffee Break 30'
10:30 Ocean transport in the South Atlantic with and without eddies combining the GO-SHIP section at 34.5°S, satellite detection of mesoscale eddies, and Argo floats data 1h0'

Speaker: G. Manta (Universidad de la República)
11:30 Thirty years of GOSHIP and WOCE data: Atlantic Overturning of mass, heat, freshwater and anthropogenic Carbon transport 30'

Speaker: V. Caínzos (Georgia Tech)
12:00 A multi-data set analysis of the freshwater transport by the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at nominally 34.5ºS 30'

Speaker: C. Arumi (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 Research Projects 1h0'
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15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 Research Projects 2h0'
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20:30 Social dinner at Da Pino 2h0'

Via Ottaviano Augusto, 2B, 34123 Trieste TS

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

09:00 - 18:00

09:00 Abyssal equatorial mixing and the overturning circulation & Zonal asymmetries of the Southern Ocean circulation 1h0'

Speaker: L. Talley (University of California)
10:00 Coffee Break 30'
10:30 Transient response of the AMOC and ACC to Antarctic meltwater release 1h0'

Speaker: R. Farneti (ICTP)

11:30 Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice from satellite observations and reanalysis data 30'

Speaker:

F. Cocetta (Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici - CMCC Earth System Modelling and Data Assimilation division (ESYDA))

12:00 Global redistributions of Antarctic meltwater 30'

Speaker: Z. Song
12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 Research Projects 1h0'
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15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 Research Projects 2h0'
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Thursday, 9 July 2026
- 09:00 - 18:00
  - 09:00 Research Projects 1h0'
  - 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
  - 10:30 Research Projects 2h0'
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
  - 14:30 Research Projects 1h0'
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  - 15:30 Coffee break 30'
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Friday, 10 July 2026
- 09:00 - 14:30
  - 09:00 Groups Presentations 1h0'
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  - 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
  - 10:30 Groups Presentations 1h0'
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  - 11:30 Final Discussion 1h0'
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'