Session 2B |
| | General Session on Climate Variability |
| | Chair: Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY
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| 11:45 AM | 2B.1A | The climate of 2006 in historical perspective  
Karin Gleason, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Heim, D. Levinson, S. Stephens, and C. Tankersley |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 2B.1 | Climatic Normals for Changing Climate
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. E. Livezey and H. M. Van den Dool |
| 1:45 PM | 2B.2 | An update on observed stratospheric temperature trends
William J. Randel, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:00 PM | 2B.3 | Opposing effects of reflective and absorptive Rossby wave breaking events on the intraseasonal NAO: A feedback mechanism for the interannual NAO
Gudrun Magnusdottir, University of California, Irvine, CA; and J. T. Abatzoglou |
| 2:15 PM | 2B.4 | Atmospheric blockings - Their influence on the NAO and PNA
Mischa Croci-Maspoli, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. B. Schwierz and H. C. Davies |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 2B.5 | The interannual and interdecadal variability in hurricane acticity over the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean
Anthony R. Lupo, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and T. K. Latham, T. H. Magill, J. V. Clark, and P. S. Market |
| 4:15 PM | 2B.6 | The non-stationary correlation between Sahel precipitation indices and Atlantic Hurricane activity
Andreas H. Fink, Univ. of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and J. M. Schrage |
|  | 2B.7 | Decadal variability of ENSO persistence barrier in ocean heat content and its phase Lag with the SST barrier
Jin-Yi Yu, University of California, Irvine, CA; and H. Y. Kao |
| 4:30 PM | 2B.8 | The Thermal and Dynamical Structure of the Atmosphere during the 1998-2000 La Nina
Amir Shabbar, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and B. Yu |
| 4:45 PM | 2B.9 | Assessment of US climate variations using the US Climate Extremes Index
Bryan A. Burkholder, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly |
| 5:00 PM | 2B.10 | A new method for time series filtering near endpoints
Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and P. Yu and J. J. O'Brien |