| | 5D.3 | Onset and variability of the South American Monsoon Rosana Nieto-Ferreira, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and T. M. Rickenbach and B. Konkle |
| 8:30 AM | 5D.4 | The first transition of the Asian summer monsoon, intraseasonal oscillation, and Taiwan Meiyu Chih-wen Hung, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and H. -. H. Hsu |
| 8:45 AM | 5D.5 | The relationship between ENSO and East Asian Monsoon revealed by Taiwan climate variations Mong-Ming Lu, Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 9:00 AM | 5D.6 | Interaction between South China Sea monsoon and Indian monsoon Rosbintarti Kartika Lestari, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Japan, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; and T. Iwasaki |
| 9:15 AM | 5D.7 | Relationship between Amazon and High Andes rainfall Edward K. Vizy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook |
| 9:30 AM | 5D.8 | Using information content of coupled climate model simulations to generate multimodel projections of monsoon variability Viatcheslav V. Tatarskii, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and D. C. Collins and P. Webster |