Polar Climate and Ocean Model Working Group Meeting 2026
Thursday, February 5th - Joint Agenda
Lettie Roach (Remote)
Diajeng Atmojo (Remote)
Noah Day (Remote)
Discussion Topics:
Wave Ice Physics and future development
Coordinated experiments and analysis with CESM
Regional ice/ocean/wave modeling (CROCODILE)
Break
CGD Seminar: Understanding biases in Antarctic passive microwave sea ice concentration using ICESat-2, NISAR, and data assimilation.
Chris Horvat (Remote)
Lunch
Co-chairs - Gustavo Marques, Ian Grooms, Alice DuVivier, David Bailey
Laura Landrum, Mari Tye, James Done
CESM 3 sea ice overview
Alice DuVivier and Dave Bailey
CESM 3 Ocean Overview
Ian Grooms/Gustavo Marques
Discussion Topics:
- CESM3 release
- CMIP7 plans, etc.
- CESM3 planned manuscripts
- Coordinated experiments and analysis, etc.
- Regional ice/ocean/wave modeling (CROCODILE)
- Anything else
Break
Thursday, February 5th - Afternoon - PCWG Agenda
Welcome
Co-chairs
Will Gregory (Remote)
Melt Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice
David Clemens-Sewall
Adjourn
Thursday, February 5th - Afternoon - OMWG Agenda
Design and implementation of ML parameterization to aid Gent-McWilliams scheme
Dhruv Balwada
Ian Grooms
Using the ocean’s internal wave spectrum to inform eddy viscosities
Darren Engwirda
An implicit closure for subgrid potential vorticity mixing in MOM6
Wenda Zhang
Adjourn
Friday, February 6th - PCWG Agenda
Alice DuVivier
David Clemens-Sewall, Courtney Payne, Claire Singer, Walker Lee
Break
Alice DuVivier
Discussion:
ML enabled CESM
High resolution
PCWG led community experiments
Anything else
Adjourn
Friday, February 6th - OMWG Agenda
Introduction
Co-chairs
Mats Bentsen (Remote)
Shanlin Wang
Break
Dan Amrhein, Manish Venumuddula, and Aidan Janney
Discussion:
(Topics - Beyond CESM3)
ML enabled CESM
OMWG resource request and University large allocation requests
OMWG led community Experiments
Regional modeling/CROCODILE
High resolution
Lunch (1.5 hrs: note cafeteria only serving employees)
Adjourn