Session 2 |
| | Linking Weather and Climate |
| | Organizers: Randall M. Dole, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; Richard B. Rood, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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| 8:30 AM | 2.1 | Weather - Climate and Subseasonal Forecasting
Klaus M. Weickmann, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and E. Berry |
| 9:00 AM | 2.2 | Tropical cyclones, continental closed anticyclones and organized mesoscale systems as important links between high-impact weather and seasonal climate
Lance Bosart, SUNY, Albany, NY |
| 9:30 AM | 2.3 | The Impact of Large-Scale Climate Variability on Weather
Siegfried D. Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Suarez, P. Pegion, Y. Chang, and J. Bacmeister |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 2.4 | Coupling of water vapor convergence, clouds, precipitation and land-surface processes in the climate over land  
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT |
| 11:00 AM | 2.5 | From Cloud Organization to Climate Sensitivity—The Cloud Object Approach
Kuan-Man Xu, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki and T. Wong |
| 11:30 AM | 2.6 | Predictability and Forecast Skill of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. L. Li, S. D. Schubert, B. P. Kirtman, H. L. Pan, and A. Vintzileos |
| 11:45 AM | 2.7 | A unified approach to weather, climate, and earth-system prediction for the 21st century
Melvyn A. Shapiro, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO |
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