Session 5B |
| | Hurricanes and Climate III: Long-Term Variability |
| | Chair: James P. Kossin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 8:00 AM | 5B.1 | Erroneous use of the historical data base to link global warming with increased tropical cyclone activity
Stanley B. Goldenberg, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 8:15 AM | 5B.2 | Understanding of tropical cyclone intensity change in a warming world 
Liguang Wu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 8:30 AM | 5B.3 | An Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Intensification Index for the Last 2000 Years: A Significant ~510 Year Climate Cyclic Pulse Reconstructed 
Jorge Sanchez-Sesma, Instituto Mexicano de Tecnologia del Agua, Jiutepec, Morelos, Mexico |
| 8:45 AM | 5B.4 | Downscaling hurricane climatologies from global models and re-analyses
Kerry A. Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. Sundararajan and J. Williams |
| 9:00 AM | 5B.5 | Global Warming, Climate Variability and Atlantic Hurricanes
Chunzai Wang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and S. K. Lee and D. B. Enfield |
| 9:15 AM | 5B.6 | Large Contribution of Sea Surface Warming to Recent Increase in Atlantic Hurricane Activity
Mark A. Saunders, University College London, Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom; and A. S. R. Lea |
| 9:30 AM | 5B.7 | The role of salinity as the primary driver for the Atlantic Ocean's multi-decadal parameter variations
William M. Gray, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO |