84th AMS Annual Meeting

Joint Session 13: Seasonal to interannual climate prediction with emphasis on the 2002 El Nino (Joint with 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations and the Symp. on Forecasting Weather and Climate of the Atmosphere and Ocean (Room 6C)

Thursday, 15 January 2004: 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Room 6C
Organizers:  Michele M. Rienecker, NASA/GSFC and Stephen E. Zebiak, International Research Institute for climate prediction, Columbia University
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Evolution of the 2002-03 El Niño
Michael J. McPhaden, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA

  8:45 AM
Predictability of the 1997 and 2002 El Ninos
Alicia Karspeck, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and M. Cane and D. Chen

  9:00 AM
The termination of the 2002-3 El Niño
Gabriel A. Vecchi, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattl, WA; and D. E. Harrison

  9:15 AM
The effect of ocean data assimilation on the spring predictability barrier of ENSO during the 1993–2002 decade
Augustin Vintzileos, GEST-UMBC and GMAO-NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Rienecker, M. J. Suarez, and S. Schubert

 
J13.5
TRMM and the forecasting of the 2002-03 El Niño

  9:45 AM
Development of a new seasonal forecast model at NCEP
Hua-Lu Pan, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Saha, W. Wang, and G. White

  10:00 AM
Atmospheric Predictability of Seasonal Climate Means: Sensitivity to Annual Cycle and ENSO Variations
Cheng-Ta Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

Poster PDF (967.0 kB)
  10:15 AM
Observational impact on seasonal forecast skill using the NSIPP ocean data assimilation system
Chaojiao Sun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. M. Rienecker and C. L. Keppenne

  10:45 AM
Generalized Inversion of the Bryan & Cox ocean model and Tropical Atmosphere -Ocean (TAO ) Data
Andrew F. Bennett, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and B. S. Chua

  11:30 AM
Initialization of unstable coupled systems by breeding ensembles
Shu-Chih Yang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Cai, M. Pena, and E. Kalnay

 
J13.13
Seasonal Forecasting Using Natural Analog Ensembles

  12:00 PM
ENSO forecast by Markov model since 1996: Strength, Weakness and Improvement
Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and V. Kousky

  12:15 PM
Predictability of extratropical stormtrack variations
Gilbert P. Compo, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

  12:45 PM
Predictability of Indian monsoon rainfall variability
Michael K. Tippett, Internation Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, NY; and T. DelSole

  1:00 PM
POAMA: an Australian ocean-atmosphere model for climate prediction
Guomin Wang, BMRC, Melbourne, Australia; and O. Alves, A. Zhong, N. Smith, A. Schiller, G. Meyers, F. Tseitkin, and S. Godfrey

  1:15 PM
Seasonal Predictions from the FSU Regional Climate Model
Steven D. Cocke, FSU, Tallahassee, FL; and T. E. LaRow and D. W. Shin

  1:30 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  2:45 PM
Lunch Break

  4:15 PM
Coffee Break

  4:45 PM
A Hierarchy of Data-Based Enso Models
D. Kondrashov, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and S. V. Kravtsov and M. Ghil