Session 6 |
| | Unresolved issues in ENSO dynamics and prediction |
| | Chair: Daniel J. Vimont, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 10:30 AM | 6.1 | Internal Atmospheric Variability, Pacific Meridional Mode and ENSO
Ping Chang, Department of Oceanography, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX |
| 11:00 AM | 6.2 | The relationship between post 1997/1998 Westerly Wind Events and recent lack of ENSO related cold-tongue warming
D. E. Harrison, Global Climate Observing System/GOOS/WCRP Ocean Observing Panel for Climate, Seattle, WA; and A. M. Chiodi |
| 11:15 AM | 6.3 | The correlative evolution of upper ocean seasonal cycle and ENSO  
Heng Xiao, Dept. of Atmos. and Oceanic Sci., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso |
| 11:30 AM | 6.4 | The impact of surface heat fluxes associated with the North Pacific Oscillation on ENSO variability: testing the Seasonal Footprinting Mechanism
Michael Alexander, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Vimont, P. Chang, and J. D. Scott |
| 11:45 AM | 6.5 | The late fall extratropical response to El Nino: The role of coupling and convection in the tropical western Pacific
Ileana Blade, Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and M. Newman, M. Alexander, and J. D. Scott |