20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change (Expanded View)

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Program Chairpersons:
Aiguo Dai, NCAR
John Roads, SIO/Univ. Of California
David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Compact View of Conference

Sunday, 20 January 2008
7:30 AM-9:30 AM, Sunday 2008
Short Course Registration
 
9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday 2008
Conference Registration
 
12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
7th Annual WeatherFest
 
Monday, 21 January 2008
7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday 2008
Registration continues through Thursday, 24 January
 
9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday 2008, 215-216
Session 1A Adaptation to Climate Change
Organizers: Rosina Bierbaum, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Peter Backlund, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
9:00 AMOverview: Rosina Bierbaum   wrf recording
9:15 AM1A.1Outcomes from the first National Summit on Coping with Climate Change   wrf recording
Peter Backlund, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Bierbaum
9:30 AM1A.2Management Options to help the water sector adapt to Climate Change   wrf recording
Kathy Jacobs, Arizona Water Institute, Tucson, AZ
10:00 AM1A.3Opportunities to Anticipate and Adapt to the Effects of Climate Change on Water Quality  extended abstract wrf recording
Joel Scheraga, EPA, Washington, DC
 
9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday 2008, 217-218
Session 1B African Climate: I. Past and Future
Chair: Kerry H. Cook, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
9:00 AM1B.1Holocene hydrological changes in North Africa (Invited)   wrf recording
Françoise Gasse Sr., CNRS-France, Aix-en-Provence, France
9:30 AM1B.2Regional projections of future changes in climate in tropical Africa under greenhouse gas forcing and land cover changes   wrf recording
Heiko Paeth, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; and M. Christoph and A. H. Fink
9:45 AM1B.3The relationship between temperature and precipitation in the Sahel as a diagnostic of land-atmosphere feedbacks of relevance to climate change   wrf recording
Alessandra Giannini, International Research Institute for Climate and Society/Columbia University, Palisades, NY
10:00 AM1B.4Forcing of Sahel rainfall change and variability in the CMIP models   wrf recording
Michela Biasutti, LDEO, Palisades, NY
 
10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday 2008
Coffee Break (Mon a.m.)
 
10:45 AM-11:45 AM, Monday 2008, 215-216
Session 2A Adaptation to Climate Change (continued)
Chair: Rosina Bierbaum, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
10:45 AM2A.1Energy Systems and Adaptation issues  extended abstract wrf recording
Sue Tierney, Analysis Group, Inc., Boston, MA
11:15 AM2A.2The Nexus between Mitigation and Adaptation   wrf recording
John P. Holdren, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
 
10:45 AM-11:45 AM, Monday 2008, 217-218
Session 2B African Climate: II. African Easterly Waves and Dust
Chair: William K. M. Lau, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
10:45 AM2B.1North African dust production: past, present and future (Invited)   wrf recording
Richard Washington, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
11:00 AM2B.2Dust interaction with african climate (Invited)   wrf recording
Natalie Mahowald, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and M. Yoshioka and A. M. Sealy
11:15 AM2B.3On the generation mechanisms of African easterly waves (Invited)   wrf recording
Jen-Shan Hsieh, Department of Oceanography, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX; and K. H. Cook
11:30 AM2B.4Radar Observations of African Easterly Wave Convection During NAMMA   wrf recording
Robert Cifelli, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and T. Lang, S. A. Rutledge, B. Smull, and P. A. Kucera
 
11:45 AM-1:30 PM, Monday 2008
Opening Plenary Session Featuring Mayor Nagin of New Orleans (Cash & Carry Lunch)
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday 2008, R02-R03
Joint Session 8 Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Part I (Joint between the Tropical Meteorology Special Symposium and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Chair: Hugh E. Willoughby, Florida International University, Miami, FL
1:30 PMJ8.1Downscaling hurricane climatologies from IPCC AR4 climate models: Results and uncertainties   wrf recording
Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1:45 PMJ8.2Is there a discernible anthropogenic impact on Atlantic hurricane activity?   wrf recording
Thomas R. Knutson, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
2:00 PMJ8.3Global warming and tropical cyclone landfall frequency in East Asia   wrf recording
Johnny C. L. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2:15 PMJ8.4Hurricanes and Global Warming: Expectations versus Observations   wrf recording
Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/NWS/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday 2008, 215-216
Session 3A African Climate: III. Convection and Synoptic Systems
Chair: Edward K. Vizy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1:30 PM3A.1Intraseasonal and interannual variability of the characteristics of West African convective systems (Invited)   wrf recording
Karen I. Mohr, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. D. Thorncroft, C. J. Alonge, and W. -. K. Tao
1:45 PM3A.2Cycles of deep convection over central and southern Africa   wrf recording
A. G. Laing, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. E. Carbone and V. Levizzani
2:00 PM3A.3A 3-4 day Convective Oscillation between East Africa and Equatorial Congo during Boreal Summer   wrf recording
Chris D. Thorncroft, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and A. Mekonnen
2:15 PM3A.4Convectively coupled Kelvin waves and convective systems over equatorial Africa   wrf recording
Thi Thuy Hanh Nguyen, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Paris, France; and J. P. Duvel
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday 2008, 217-218
Session 3B Impacts of Climate Changes
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
1:30 PM3B.1Climate Change and Chicago: Projections and Potential Impacts   wrf recording
Donald J. Wuebbles, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and K. Hayhoe
1:45 PM3B.2Analysis of weather patterns associated with air quality degradation and potential health impacts   wrf recording
Adel F. Hanna, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and J. P. Pinto, Q. Meng, A. Xiu, P. J. Robinson, K. Yeatts, and Z. Zhu
2:00 PM3B.3An index to measure the influences of climate on residential natural gas demand  extended abstract
Ahira Sanchez-Lugo, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Lawrimore, D. Wuertz, and K. Hamilton
2:15 PM3B.4Simulated carbon losses from the land surface exceed emissions from fossil fuel burning   wrf recording
Paul A. T. Higgins, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (mon p.m.)
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Joint Poster Session 3 Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Poster Session (Joint between the Tropical Meteorology Special Symposium and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Cochairs: Robert Hart, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; Thomas R. Knutson, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
 JP3.1An enhanced tropical cyclone data set for the Australian region  extended abstract
Blair Trewin, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
 JP3.2Chimeric Equatorial Waves as a Better Descriptor for “Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves”  extended abstract
Winston C. Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
 JP3.3Variations of Atlantic tropical cyclones and climate change since the mid eighteenth century  
Cary J. Mock, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and M. Chenoweth, D. A. Glenn, S. F. Dodds, S. O. Holmberg, H. F. Young, J. Tanis, R. L. Murphy, L. J. Stroup, I. M. Altamirano, and C. W. Landsea
 JP3.4Understanding tropical cyclogenesis as part of NAMMA 2006: A case study of wave development (Debby) versus non development (Ernesto) in the eastern Atlantic  
Edward K. Vizy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook
 JP3.5Investigating barotropic instability of the African Easterly Jet and its potential for development in the NASA fvGCM  
Marangelly Fuentes, Howard University Program in Atmospheric Sciences, Washington, DC; and O. Reale and V. Morris
 JP3.6Atlantic hurricane increases and carbon dioxide rise  
William M. Gray, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
 JP3.7Influence of the Amazon/Orinoco plume on Atlantic hurricanes  
Kerry H. Cook, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and E. K. Vizy
 JP3.8Conversion from Shear to Curvature Vorticity, Organization of Convection, and Hurricane Genesis  
Benjamin Schenkel, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and D. T. N. Krishnamurti, S. Pattnaik, M. K. Biswas, and A. Simon
 JP3.9Interdecadal variability of the typhoon activity in Autumn  
Chih-Hua Tsou, Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. J. Lee
 JP3.10Relationships between the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Atlantic-East Pacific tropical cyclone activity  
Bradford S. Barrett, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie
 JP3.11A typhoon loss estimation model for China  extended abstract
Peter J. Sousounis, AIR Worldwide Corporation, Boston, MA; and H. He, M. L. Healy, V. K. Jain, G. Ljung, Y. Qu, and B. Shen-Tu
 JP3.12Structure on eastward-moving cloud clusters in 2007 January MJO  
Tetsuo Nakazawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
 JP3.13The role of deep tropical convection on the distribution of water within the UTLS region  
Maria R. Russo, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and C. Chemel, J. A. Pyle, R. S. Sokhi, and C. Schiller
 JP3.14Transition from a Mixed Rossby-gravity Wave to a Tropical Cyclone  
Xiaqiong Zhou, university of Hawaii, Honolulu, ID; and B. Wang, X. Ge, and Q. Ding
 JP3.15Modeling Studies of Island Induced Convective Activities in Puerto Rico Region  
Melissa Sheffer, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. Chiao and I. Matos
 JP3.16Tropical Cyclone Induced Tornados Associated With The Formation of Tropical Storm Barry  extended abstract
Andrew Devanas, NOAA/NWS, Key WEst, FL; and P. Santos, D. Gregoria, and K. Kasper
 JP3.17Characterization of the Streamers over the Caribbean  
Evelyn Rivera-Acevedo, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. Chiao, O. Bermudez, and I. Matos
 JP3.18A Climatological Feature of Typhoon Making Landfall over the Korean Peninsula  extended abstract
Baek-Jo Kim, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, South Korea; and K. S. Choi
 JP3.19Exergetics of deep moist convection  
Peter R. Bannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
 JP3.20Taking the pulse of climate change: NOAA's TAO buoys go from “research” to “operational”  
Phoebe Woodworth, NOAA, Honolulu, HI
 JP3.21Are tropical cyclones feeding more extreme rainfall events?  
William K. M. Lau, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Zhou and J. H. -. T. Wu
 JP3.22Experiments on WRF Hurricane Initialization (WRF-HI) – An Approach Based on WRF Variational Data Assimilation of Remote-Sensing and Synthetic Observations  extended abstract
Qingnong Xiao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and X. Zhang, Z. Liu, W. Wang, C. A. Davis, G. J. Holland, P. J. Fitzpatrick, Y. Li, C. Hill, and H. R. Winterbottom
 JP3.23Role of large-scale environment in the interannual variability of Australian region tropical cyclones  
Hamish Andrew Ramsay, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie, P. J. Lamb, and M. Leplastrier
 JP3.24The Impacts of Dust and Humidity Fields on Atlantic Hurricane Activities  
Donglian Sun, George Mason University, Fairfax, Viriginia; and M. Kafatos and Z. Boybeyi
 JP3.25Developing verse non-developing tropical disturbances for tropical cyclone formations  
Melinda S. Peng, NRL, Monterey, CA; and B. Fu and T. Li
 JP3.26Reconciling water vapor fields measured by AIRS and HSB – A tropical case study using Hurricane Lili  
Evan Fishbein, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Fetzer and B. H. Lambrigtsen
 JP3.27Atmospheric teleconnections and Australian region tropical cyclone variability 1970–2005  
Kevin H. Goebbert, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie
 JP3.28Observing hurricanes and severe storms with the GeoSTAR-PATH mission  
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. Brown
JP3.29PAPER WITHDRAWN  
JP3.30High-resolution upper air measurement from Cape Verde during NAMMA, the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses Project  
F. J. Schmidlin, NASA/GSFC, Wallops Island, VA; and B. J. Morrison, E. T. Northam, and T. M. Baldwin
 JP3.31Quantifying the Contribution of Tropical Cyclones to Extreme Rainfall along the Coastal Southeastern United States  
J. Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and A. Grundstein and T. Mote
 JP3.32Distributions and trends of death and destruction from hurricanes in the United States, 1900-2006  
Hugh E. Willoughby, Florida International University, Miami, FL
 JP3.33Building capacity to forecast and respond to storm inundation in Hawaii  
Wes Browning, NOAA/NWS/Honolulu Weather Forecast Office, Honolulu, HI
 JP3.34Education through interaction with data sets - Hurricane Katrina and the Integrated Data Viewer  
Troy Allison, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; and S. O. Holmberg, B. J. Etherton, and J. Weber
 JP3.35Upper ocean thermal structure and the western North Pacific supertyphoons  
I.-I. Lin, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan; and I. F. Pun and C. C. Wu
 JP3.36Coastal observations of disturbed weather in Senegal during the 2006 NAMMA field campaign  
Gregory S. Jenkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and P. A. Kucera, E. Joseph, J. D. Fuentes, A. T. Gaye, J. Gerlach, F. Roux, A. Protat, D. Bouniol, and N. Viltard
 JP3.37An evaluation of long-term variability of tropical storm and hurricane activity in the Atlantic  extended abstract
Jose Maliekal, SUNY, Brockport, NY
 JP3.38Next Generation Airborne Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRad) - Improved Forecast Skill with Wide Field Imagery  extended abstract
Linwood Jones, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; and P. G. Black, S. S. Chen, R. E. Hood, J. W. Johnson, C. S. Ruf, A. Mims, and C. C. Hennon
 JP3.39On the Climatology of Tropical Cyclones in the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico  
L. J. Pietrafesa, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Bao, T. I. Yan, and D. Dickey
 JP3.40Possible climate impacts of Saharan dust on frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones  
Kyu-Myong Kim, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. M. Lau
 JP3.41The utility of the ERA40 Cyclone Phase Space in Trend Diagnosis and North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Reanalysis  
Danielle Manning, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. Hart
 JP3.42The possible winter impact from recurving tropical cyclones  
Robert Hart, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and L. F. Bosart and C. Hosler
 JP3.43Estimating local memory of tropical cyclones through MPI anomaly evolution  
Robert Hart, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. Maue and M. C. Watson
 JP3.44Analysis of the Wind Field Evolution Associated with the Extratropical Transition of Bonnie (1998)  
Clark Evans, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. Hart
 JP3.45Tropical cyclone trends and attribution from reanalysis datasets  
Ryan N. Maue, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. Hart and M. A. Bourassa
 JP3.46Tropical Storm Debby and the SAL: A comparative analysis with TD 8 from the NAMMA 2006 field campaign  
Aaron Pratt, Howard University, Washington, DC; and G. S. Jenkins
 JP3.47Are there regimes in Tropical Cyclone Activity in the North Atlantic?  
S. D. Aberson, Hurricane Research Division, AOML, Miami, FL
 JP3.49NEXRAD in Space: A Solution to the Hurricane Intensity Prediction Problem  
Gregory J. Tripoli, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and V. Chandrasekar, S. S. Chen, G. Holland, E. Im, R. Kakar, W. E. Lewis, F. D. Marks, A. Mugnai, E. A. Smith, and S. Tanelli
JP3.48PAPER WITHDRAWN  
 JP3.50Characterization of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) during NAMMA 2006 DC-8 Flight Missions  
Tamara L. Battle, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and G. Jenkins
 JP3.51The Role Played by Blocking over the Northern Hemisphere on Hurricane KATRINA  extended abstract
Dr. Yehia Yehia Hafez Sr., Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt
 JP3.52NOAA's Hurricane Forecasting Improvement Project Plan  
Fred Toepfer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 1 African Climate Poster Session
Chair: Kerry H. Cook, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
 P1.1Four-dimensional climate data sets of the AMMA special observing period-3  extended abstract
Leonard Druyan, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and M. Fulakeza, P. Lonergan, and E. Noble
 P1.2Climatology and interannual variability of South African synoptic scale storms  
Timothy Eichler, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Mo; and W. Higgins
 P1.3The impact of dynamic vegetation on dust and Sahel precipitation  
Andrea M. Sealy, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Mahowald
 P1.4East African temperature variations and their possible causes  
J. R. Christy, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL; and W. B. Norris and R. T. McNider
 P1.5A reexamination of the statistical relationships between West African precipitation anomalies and Atlantic hurricane activity  
Jon M. Schrage, Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE; and A. H. Fink
 P1.6Genesis of African Easterly Waves  
Chris D. Thorncroft, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and N. M. J. Hall and G. N. Kiladis
 P1.7Subseasonal prediction of cumulative precipitation over the Sahel with the NCEP Climate Forecasting System  
Augustin Vintzileos, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, VA; and W. M. Thiaw
 P1.8Convectively coupled Kelvin waves over tropical Africa during the boreal summer: Structure and variability  
Ademe Mekonnen, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. D. Thorncroft and G. N. Kiladis
 P1.9Index insurance for drought in the Millennium Villages Project  
M. Neil Ward, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and E. M. Holthaus and A. Siebert
 P1.10Annual cycle of the Saharan heat low and its role in the coupled West African monsoon system  
Thi Thuy Hanh Nguyen, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY; and C. D. Thorncroft, C. Zhang, and P. Peyrille
 P1.11Statistical characterization of the dry spell risk during the west African monsoon from meteorological station data  extended abstract
Asher Siebert, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and N. Ward, O. Ndiaye, and P. Kangah
 P1.12Impacts of dust on West African climate during 2005 and 2006  
Moctar Camara, Howard University, Washington, DC; and G. Jenkins and A. Konare
 P1.13A climatology of African warm-season rainfall episodes based on a combined IR/MW precipitation estimate approach  
Samantha Melani, LaMMA -Institute of Biometeorology (IBIMET-CNR), Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy; and A. Antonini, V. Levizzani, R. Ginnetti, M. Pasqui, A. Ortolani, A. G. Laing, and R. E. Carbone
 P1.14A Synoptic and Structural Analysis of the 11 September 2006 West African Squall Line  
Jonathan Smith, Howard University, Washington, DC; and M. Delonge, S. Chan, A. Diop, B. Koltz, D. Grant, S. Diatta, S. Salak, and T. Fall
 P1.15Possible Interactions between a West African Squall Line Event and the SAL  
Aaron Pratt, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and T. L. Battle, D. Robertson, and B. Dickey
 P1.16Interactions of the West African Monsoon circulation and the Tropical Atlantic SSTs in a coupled regional climate model  
Samson M. Hagos, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and K. H. Cook
 P1.17The effect of dust optical properties on surface radiative energy budget and atmospheric thermodynamics during Pirata/Aerose-III  
Adrian Flores, NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, N. R. Nalli, and V. Morris
 P1.18Wavelet-Based Monthly-to-Seasonal Rainfall Predictions for Ethiopia  
Zewdu Segele, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. J. Lamb and L. M. Leslie
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 2 General Climate Studies: Poster Session
CoChair: Gerald L. Potter, LLNL, Livermore, CA
Chair: J. Roads, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA
 P2.1The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: A Synthesis of the Fourth Assessment Report  extended abstract
Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
 P2.2Attribution of extreme variability of temperature to major teleconnections and development of probabilistic aides for decision makers using logistic regression: a case stduy of a Florida frost hollow  extended abstract
Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL
 P2.5Impacts of Climate Change on Energy Demand in Greater Dublin Region, Ireland  extended abstract
Xiaochen Liu, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland; and J. Sweeney
P2.3PAPER WITHDRAWN  
P2.4Stratocumulus sensitivity to aerosols and dynamics  
Guillaume Sadler Mauger, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. R. Norris
 P2.6A new satellite derived precipitation data set for studying trends in extreme events  extended abstract
Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and T. Smith, M. Sapiano, R. Joseph, and H. Meng
 P2.7Use of climate data to further enhance quality assurance of Oklahoma Mesonet observations  extended abstract
Peter K. Hall Jr., Oklahoma Mesonet, Norman, OK; and C. R. Morgan, A. D. Gartside, N. E. Bain, R. Jabrzemski, and C. A. Fiebrich
 P2.8The European Heat Wave & Drought Event of 2003  
Jason R. Webster, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
 P2.9Analyses and Comparisons of Two Reanalyses for Tropical Monthly v -component wind field  
Yujing Qin, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and P. Wang
P2.10PAPER WITHDRAWN  
 P2.11Upwelling and Coastal Climate Variability in Southern California, 1998-2007: A Return to the Cool Phase of Pacific Decadal Oscillation?  extended abstract
Pedro Ramirez, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; and S. LaDochy and W. C. Patzert
 Poster P2.12 has been moved. New paper number 13A.4A  
 P2.13Two types of strong Northeast Asian summer monsoon  
Jung-Eun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and S. W. Yeh and S. Y. Hong
 P2.14The global increase in blocking occurrences  extended abstract
Anthony R. Lupo, University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO; and J. V. Clark, K. Puricelli, and A. S. Kelly
 P2.15Characteristics of boundary-layer decoupling and cloud properties revealed  
David K. Mansbach, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. R. Norris
 P2.16Science policy changes are necessary for information archival to support producing long term climate data records from remote sensing data  
Albert J. Fleig, PITA Analytic Sciences, Bethesda, MD
 P2.17Covariate analysis of severe weather across Australia  
Stephanie M. Verbout, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. H. Goebbert, L. M. Leslie, M. Leplastrier, and A. Gero
 P2.18Recent trend of Hadley and Walker circulation shown in water vapor transport potential  extended abstract
Seong-Chan Park, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn
 P2.19Diurnal and seasonal wind variability for selected stations in southern california climate regions  extended abstract
Charles J. Fisk, Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, CA., Point Mugu, California
 P2.20Does the Madden-Julian Oscillation Influence Aerosol Variability?  
Baijun Tian, UCLA, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, R. A. Kahn, Q. Li, Y. Yung, T. Tyranowski, I. Geogdzhayev, M. I. Mishchenko, and O. Torres
 P2.21Examination of Canadian Climate Immediately after Sept. 11, 2001  extended abstract
William A. Van Wijngaarden, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
 P2.22Shortwave aerosol radiative effect over the global oceans using GOCART and satellite data  
Thomas A. Jones, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher
 P2.23Temperature extremes variability in the south of South America in relation to Atlantic SST and the Southern Annular Mode  extended abstract
Mariana Barrucand, CONICET/Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos (FCEN-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; and M. Rusticucci and W. Vargas
 P2.24The influence of urbanization on precipitation patterns in the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex since 1900  
Anna Marie Nordfelt, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. M. Quiring
 P2.25Analysis of historical surface temperature data across a heterogeneous landscape in lower Mississippi river valley  
Jiale Xu, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and V. Anantharaj, Q. Lu, and U. S. Nair
 P2.26From Climate Variability to Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities to Agricultural Extension  extended abstract
Clyde William Fraisse, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and N. E. Breuer, D. F. Zierden, and K. T. Ingram
 P2.27Teleconnection between the precipitation rates over the Red Sea and El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)  extended abstract
Dr. Yehia Yehia Hafez Sr., Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; and M. El - Rafy
 P2.28Characterizing the Vertical Latent Heating Structure of the MJO using TRMM  
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Jiang, J. L. Li, B. Tian, W. S. Olson, M. Grecu, W. -. K. Tao, S. E. Lang, A. M. Tompkins, and T. S. L'Ecuyer
 P2.29Isolating non-ENSO signals in the historical climate record  
Prashant Sardeshmukh, Climate Diagnostics Center/CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo
 P2.30Pacific Pan-decadal Variability in observation, reanalyses and IPCC AR4 CGCM simulations  
Junye Chen, Univ. of Maryland/ESSIC & NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Wang, A. D. Del Genio, B. Carlson, and M. G. Bosilovich
 P2.31The tropical Pacific barrier layer's multi-temporal scale variability and its thermodynamic effects  
Qiuxia Wu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and Y. Yin
 P2.32Seasonal Rainfall and ENSO over the Tropical Pacific Region  
Luke He, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and E. Olenic and D. A. Unger
 
4:00 PM-4:30 PM, Monday 2008, R02-R03
Joint Session 9 Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Part II (Joint between the Tropical Meteorology Special Symposium and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Chair: Hugh E. Willoughby, Florida International University, Miami, FL
4:00 PMJ9.1Quantifying the uncertainty in hurricane response to climate fluctuations and trends   wrf recording
Greg Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO
4:15 PMJ9.2Hurricane variability and trends: The varying roles of sea surface temperature  extended abstract wrf recording
James P. Kossin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday 2008, 215-216
Session 4A African Climate: IV. West Africa
Chair: Wassila M. Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
4:00 PM4A.1A comparison of coastal radio sounding stations during NAMMA-06   wrf recording
Gregory S. Jenkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and S. Sall, A. T. Gaye, D. Badiane, F. Kebe, M. Camara, and E. Joseph
4:15 PM4A.2Dynamics of the West African monsoon jump   wrf recording
Kerry H. Cook, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and S. M. Hagos, J. F. Newman, and E. K. Vizy
4:30 PM4A.3West Africa Desert Locust infestations: connections with regional atmospheric circulation patterns   wrf recording
Chiara Vallebona, CNR, Firenze, Italy; and A. Crisci, A. Di Vecchia, L. Genesio, G. Maracchi, and M. Pasqui
4:45 PM4A.4Evolution of latent heating profiles of the West African Monsoon   wrf recording
C. Zhang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. M. Hagos and G. Gu
5:00 PM4A.5Seasonal evolution of the West African Heat Low: a climatological perspective   wrf recording
Christophe Lavaysse, CNRS, Paris, France; and C. Flamant, S. Janicot, J. P. Lafore, D. J. Parker, and J. Pelon
5:15 PM4A.6Intraseasonal Variability in the Equatorial Atlantic-West Africa during March-June   wrf recording
Guojun Gu, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday 2008, 217-218
Session 4B Impacts of Climate Changes (continued)
Chair: Juliane Fry, Reed College, Portland, OR
4:00 PM4B.1Multi-catchment investigation of the impacts of climate change on hydrology in Ireland  
Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands; and R. McGrath, P. Lynch, T. Semmler, S. Wang, J. A. Hanafin, and P. Nolan
4:15 PM4B.2Projected climate change impacts on lakes/wetlands extent and their hydrologic processes in Michigan State   wrf recording
Vimal Mishra, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and K. A. Cherkauer and L. C. Bowling
4:30 PM4B.3Refinements in index insurance pricing via dendroclimatology, in the context of a nonstationary background state   wrf recording
Arthur M. Greene, IRI = International Research Institute for Climate and Society (The Earth Institute, Columbia University), Palisades, NY; and D. Osgood and L. Goddard
4:45 PM4B.4Impacts of weather and climate on commercial motor vehicles  extended abstract
Michael A. Rossetti, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and M. Johnsen
5:00 PM4B.5Climate variability and change with implications for transportation  extended abstract wrf recording
Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. McGuirk, T. G. Houston, A. Horvitz, and M. F. Wehner
5:15 PM4B.6Climate Change / Climate Variability, System Vulnerability and Planning for Adaptive Strategies   wrf recording
T.N. Balasubramanian, M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, TamilNadu, India; and A. A. Nambi
 
4:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday 2008, R02-R03
Joint Panel Discussion 1 Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Panel Discussion: Kossin, Landsea, Holland, Chan, Emanuel, Knutson (Joint between the Tropical Meteorology Special Symposium and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Panelists: Kerry A. Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Christopher Landsea, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC, Miami, FL; James P. Kossin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Thomas R. Knutson, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; Johnny C. L. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong China; Greg J. Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Moderator: Hugh E. Willoughby, Florida International University, Miami, FL
4:30 PMJPD1.1Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Panel Discussion   wrf recording
Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and C. Landsea, J. Kossin, T. R. Knutson, J. C. L. Chan, and G. Holland
 Hugh E. Willoughby  
 Christopher Landsea  
 James P. Kossin  
 Thomas R. Knutson  
 Johnny C. L. Chan  
 Greg J. Holland  
 
5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
 
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday 2008, 224
Joint Session 1 Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Hydrology and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
CoChair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Chair: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
8:30 AMJ1.1Analysis of Large Scale Spatial Variability of Soil Moisture Data using a Geostatistical Method  extended abstract wrf recording
Tarendra Lakhankar, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Jones, C. L. Combs, M. Sengupta, and T. H. Vonder Haar
8:45 AMJ1.2Analysis and Verification of Soil Water Content Measurements from the Oklahoma Mesonet  extended abstract wrf recording
Aaron M. Gleason, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
9:00 AMJ1.3Analysis of Surface Energy Budget Data Over Varying Land-Cover Conditions  extended abstract wrf recording
John B. Barr, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, W. P. Kustas, and J. H. Prueger
9:15 AMJ1.4Replicating horizontal variability in latent and sensible heat flux over a heterogeneous surface: The IHOP_2002 Western Track   wrf recording
Margaret LeMone, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Tewari, F. Chen, J. G. Alfieri, and D. Niyogi
9:30 AMJ1.5The structure of the convective boundary layer in and around Oklahoma City  extended abstract wrf recording
Kodi L. Nemunaitis, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Basara
 
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday 2008, 215-216
Session 5A African Climate: V. Eastern and Southern Africa
Chair: Chidong Zhang, University of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
8:30 AM5A.1Abrupt rainfall transitions over the Greater Horn of Africa: observations and regional model simulations   wrf recording
Emily E. Riddle, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook
8:45 AM5A.2The role of upper tropospheric easterly waves on the synoptic time scale convection over East Africa   wrf recording
Ademe Mekonnen, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. D. Thorncroft
9:00 AM5A.3Monsoon breaks over northern Africa: Role of cold air surges   wrf recording
Edward K. Vizy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook
9:15 AM5A.4Why did the southern Africa teleconnection “hang up” during the 1997-98 El Niño?   wrf recording
Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and S. J. Mason
9:30 AM5A.5A regional climate modeling study of climate change over the Greater Horn of Africa   wrf recording
Jared Bowden, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and F. H. M. Semazzi
 
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday 2008, 217-218
Session 5B General Climate Studies: Observations I
Chair: Edward A. O'Lenic, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
8:30 AM5B.1Thermal Structure and Variability of the Tropical Tropopause Layer Derived from AIRS Observations   wrf recording
Baijun Tian, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. J. Fetzer, D. E. Waliser, and B. H. Lambrigtsen
8:45 AM5B.2AIRS-based atmospheric parameter climatologies: a high quality tool for monitoring short-, and longer-term climate variabilities and “trends”   wrf recording
Gyula I. Molnar, GEST/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Susskind
9:00 AM5B.3Global Climatology of Tropospheric CO from the Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS)  extended abstract wrf recording
Wallace McMillan, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and L. Yurganov, K. Evans, and C. D. Barnet
9:15 AM5B.4Estimation of top of the atmosphere global aerosol direct radiative effect using CERES, MODIS and MISR   wrf recording
Falguni Patadia, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and P. Gupta and S. A. Christopher
9:30 AM5B.5Calculating cloud feedbacks from changes in temperature using daily satellite and reanalysis data   wrf recording
Neil D. Gordon, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. R. Norris
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Tue a.m.)
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Joint Poster Session 1 Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Hydrology and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
CoChair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Chair: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
 JP1.1Assessing the Performance of CLASS in the Canadian Regional Climate Model  
Edmond Chan, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and M. MacKay and D. Verseghy
 JP1.2Evapotranspiration over an irrigated cotton field  
Haimei Jiang, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and S. Liu and H. P. Liu
 JP1.3ENSO based low-frequency precipitation and nutrient load oscillations in the Little River Watershed, Georgia  
Victoria W. Keener, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and G. Feyereisen, J. W. Jones, and U. Lall
 JP1.4Korea land data assimilation system (KLDAS) and its application using WRF  
Yoon-Jin Lim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and T. Y. Lee and K. Y. Byun
 JP1.5Evaluating NARR surface variables and NLDAS using observations from the Oklahoma Mesonet  extended abstract
Justin W. Monroe, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara and D. L. Toll
 JP1.6Evaluating land-atmosphere interactions in climate models using high-frequency ARM observations  
Thomas J. Phillips, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. S. Boyle, J. J. Hnilo, S. A. Klein, G. L. Potter, and S. Xie
 JP1.7Impacts of global climate change on the surface energy budget and water balances in the past 50 years  
Li Sheng, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and S. Liu and H. P. Liu
 JP1.8Evaluation of different Approaches for Estimating Evaporation over an open Water Surface  
Yu Zhang, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and H. Jiang, L. Sheng, H. Liu, and Q. L. Williams
 JP1.9Do Clouds Follow Deforestation Over the Amazon?  
Frederic J. F. Chagnon, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. L. Bras, J. Wang, E. Williams, A. K. Betts, N. O. Renno, L. A. T. Machado, R. Knox, and G. Bisht
 
11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Exhibits Open (Tuesday)
 
11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, 215-216
Session 6A African Climate: VI. Modeling Studies
Chair: A. G. Laing, NCAR, Boulder, CO
11:00 AM6A.1Modeling the semi-arid Sahel Climate West African -- Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation (WAMME) Initiative and its first set of experiments (Invited)  
Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and W. K. M. Lau, K. H. Cook, and A. WAMME Team
11:15 AM6A.2Variability of the West African monsoon system in the new NCEP CFS model   wrf recording
Wassila M. Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and V. B. Kumar, K. C. Mo, and A. Vintzileos
11:30 AM6A.3How do the large-scale models represent the West African Monsoon mean state and variability (the AMMA-MIP experiment)?   wrf recording
Alessandro Dell'Aquila, ENEA, Roma, Italy; and F. Favot, F. Guichard, F. Hourdin, S. Janicot, T. Losada, I. Musat, R. Roca, and P. M. Ruti
11:45 AM6A.4Simulation of West African Monsoon in a set of atmospheric general circulation model uncoupled/ coupled to ocean models of varying complexity  
Sylwia Trzaska, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and D. Dewitt and D. Lee
 
11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, 217-218
Session 6B General Climate Studies: Observations II
Chair: Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY
11:00 AM6B.1Intercomparisons of AIRS, AMSR-E, and CloudSat for improving GPCP high-latitude precipitation estimates   wrf recording
Eric J. Nelkin, SSAI and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Huffman, R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, J. Susskind, and J. M. Haynes
11:15 AM6B.2Assessment of high latitude GPCP Version 2 monthly and One-Degree Daily precipitation estimates using ground-based observations   wrf recording
David T. Bolvin, SSAI and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, G. J. Huffman, and E. J. Nelkin
11:30 AM6B.3A new global analysis of precipitation  extended abstract wrf recording
Mathew R. P. Sapiano, Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (CICS/UMD), College Park, MD; and T. Smith and P. A. Arkin
11:45 AM6B.4Precipitation reanalysis/reconstructions based on satellite and in situ data   wrf recording
Phillip A. Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Smith and M. R. P. Sapiano
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday 2008, La Louisiane
Presidental Forum: Hurricane Katrina: Looking Back to Look Ahead (Cash & Carry) (Presidental Forum will run parallel to the other sessions throughout the afternoon)
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, 215-216
Session 7A General Climate Studies: Observations III
Chair: Baijun Tian, UCLA, Pasadena, CA
1:30 PM7A.1Satellite retrieval of land surface temperature: challenges and opportunities  extended abstract wrf recording
Ana C. T. Pinheiro, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC (STG, Inc contractor), Asheville, NC; and J. L. Privette, J. J. Bates, and J. Pedelty
1:45 PM7A.2Comparison of Temperature in the Lower Stratosphere from Microwave Measurements using COSMIC Radio Occultation Data: the Early Results   wrf recording
Shu-peng Ho, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Kuo, M. D. Goldberg, C. Z. Zou, and W. S. Schreiner
2:00 PM7A.3The annual cycle of surface radiation budget over Europe  extended abstract wrf recording
Pamela E. Mlynczak, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and R. Hollmann
2:15 PM7A.4A Global Monthly Land Surface Air Temperature Analysis for 1948-present   wrf recording
Yun Fan, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC/RSIS, Camp Springs, MD; and H. van den Dool
2:30 PM7A.5The climate of 2007 in historical perspective  extended abstract wrf recording
Jay Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Heim, D. H. Levinson, A. Sanchez-Lugo, D. Wuertz, L. Love-brotak, and E. Godfrey
2:45 PM7A.6Does it rain more on weekends?   wrf recording
David M. Schultz, University of Helsinki and Finnish Meteorological Institute, FI-00101, Helsinki, Finland; and S. Mikkonen, A. Laaksonen, and M. B. Richman
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday 2008, 217-218
Session 7B Climate of 20th Century (C20C) Part I
Organizers: Chris K. Folland, United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Exeter, Devon United Kingdom; James L. Kinter, III, COLA, Washington, DC
Chair: James L. Kinter, III, COLA, Washington, DC
1:30 PM7B.1The CLIVAR C20C modelling project: selected 20th century changes   wrf recording
Adam A. Scaife, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and F. Kucharski, C. K. Folland, J. L. Kinter, D. Fereday, S. Grainger, K. E. Jin, J. Knight, S. Kusunoki, M. J. Nath, T. Nakaegawa, P. Pegion, S. D. Schubert, P. Sporyshev, J. Syktus, A. Voldoire, J. H. Yoon, and T. Zhou
1:45 PM7B.2The CLIVAR C20C project: Decadal and interannual Indian rainfall variability  extended abstract wrf recording
Fred Kucharski, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; and A. A. Scaife, J. H. Yoo, C. K. Folland, J. L. Kinter, D. Fereday, K. E. Jin, M. J. Nath, P. Pegion, P. V. Sporyshev, A. Voldoire, J. H. Yoon, and T. Zhou
2:00 PM7B.3Simulating the Actual Climate of the 20th Century with a coupled GCM   wrf recording
Meizhu Fan, George Mason University/COLA, Calverton, MD; and E. K. Schneider
2:15 PM7B.4Tropical belt expansion observed during the late 20th century and relation to 21st century climate model projections   wrf recording
Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Fu, R. D. Hudson, W. J. Randel, and T. Reichler
2:30 PM7B.5Annual cycle of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation simulated by CAM3 with a modified convection scheme   wrf recording
Min Dong, Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and T. Wu and G. J. Zhang
2:45 PM7B.6Changes in cloudiness and related variables over Russia, 1950–2000   wrf recording
Garrett P. Marino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and D. Kaiser
 
1:45 PM-2:45 PM, Tuesday 2008, 224
Joint Session 2 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part II (Joint between the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 22nd Conference on Hydrology)
CoChair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Chair: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
1:45 PMJ2.2Effects of environmental factors on evaporation over an open water surface in Mississippi, U.S.A  
Heping Liu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and Y. Zhang, L. Sheng, and H. Jiang
J2.1The Lake-Atmosphere Turbulent EXchanges (LATEX) field measurement campaign  
Elie Bou-Zeid, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; and N. Vercauteren, H. Huwald, U. Lemmin, C. Meneveau, J. Selker, and M. B. Parlange
2:00 PMJ2.3Signatures of land-atmosphere feedback in a 360-year tree-ring record   wrf recording
Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. C. Fritts and M. Suarez
2:15 PMJ2.4North American Snow Depth Responses to Climate  
Yan Ge, Columbia University, New York, NY; and G. Gong
2:30 PMJ2.5Snow and warming   wrf recording
Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Brown
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (tues p.m.)
 
3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday 2008, 224
Joint Session 3 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part III (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Hydrology and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
CoChair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Chair: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
3:30 PMJ3.1Using photosynthesis-based canopy resistance model and new MODIS-based data to improve the presentation of vegetation transpiration in the Noah land surface model  extended abstract wrf recording
Anil Kumar, NCAR / Purdue University, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, D. Niyogi, J. G. Alfieri, K. Manning, M. Ek, and K. Mitchell
3:45 PMJ3.2Minimum canopy resistance for croplands and grasslands during the 2002 International H2O Project   wrf recording
Joseph G. Alfieri, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and D. Niyogi, P. D. Blanken, F. Chen, M. Ek, A. Kumar, M. A. LeMone, and K. Mitchell
4:00 PMJ3.3Controlling factors and uncertainty in dynamic vegetation modeling at seasonal and interannual scales – a study using the SSiB4/TRIFFID  
Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Z. Zhang and P. M. Cox
4:15 PMJ3.4Evaluation of GCM surface processes over West Africa using offline land surface models and observations   wrf recording
Aaron A. Boone, CNRM, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France; and I. Poccard-Leclercq and Y. K. Xue
4:30 PMJ3.5Impact of Different Surface Layer Schemes and Snow Albedo Formulations on Cold-season Simulations by the Noah Land-surface Model   wrf recording
Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, Y. Xia, V. Wong, A. Slater, and B. Livneh
4:45 PMJ3.6An Observation-Based Formulation of Snow Cover Fraction and Its Evaluation over Large North American River Basins  
Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang
5:00 PMJ3.7Mass balance of the Haig Glacier using mesoscale modeling   wrf recording
Amanda S. Adams, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; and S. Marshall
 
3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday 2008, 215-216
Session 8A General Climate Studies: Variability (ENSO, MJO, NAO, etc.)
Chair: Gerald L. Potter, LLNL, Livermore, CA
3:30 PM8A.1A Two-Oscillator View of ENSO and Its Decadal Modulation   wrf recording
Jin-Yi Yu, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA; and H. Y. Kao and F. Sun
3:45 PM8A.2Recent intensification of ENSO-MJO interaction   wrf recording
Jong-Seong Kug, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. F. Jin, A. Timmermann, and I. S. Kang
4:00 PM8A.3Thermodynamic balance and changes to the regional circulation during the monsoon onset   wrf recording
Roop K. Saini, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Lowell, MA; and M. Barlow
4:15 PM8A.4Intraseasonal teleconnection between the summer Eurasian wavetrain and the Indian monsoon   wrf recording
Qinghua Ding, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang
4:30 PM8A.5Examination of the relationship between snow cover anomalies over the Tibetan Plateau and East Asian summer monsoon onsets using MODIS satellite snow mapping and NCEP/DOE reanalysis data  
Li Xu, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and Z. Pu
4:45 PM8A.6The Southwestern Monsoon in California as indicated by GPS precipitable water   wrf recording
James D. Means, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Cayan
5:00 PM8A.7Does upper and middle tropospheric relative humidity (RH) remain constant as global temperatures rise?   wrf recording
William M. Gray, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
5:15 PM8A.8Nonlinear Time Series Modelling of Lahore's Precipitation  
Muhammad Jawed Iqbal, Universityy, Karachi 75270, Pakistan; and M. S. Khan
 
3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday 2008, 217-218
Session 8B Climate Prediction
Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO
3:30 PM8B.1Low Emission Future Climate Change Simulations  
Warren M. Washington, NCAR, Boulder, CO
3:45 PM8B.2Smoke and mirrors: Is geoengineering a solution to global warming?  
Luke Oman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and A. Robock and G. L. Stenchikov
4:00 PM8B.3Future mid-latitude summer drought: contrasts between North America and Europe   wrf recording
David P. Rowell, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
4:15 PM8B.4Future Climate of the North Pacific as Projected by IPCC-AR4 Models  
Muyin Wang, University of Washington, Seattle,, WA; and J. E. Overland
4:30 PM8B.5An assessment of ENSO-driven potential predictability implied by coupled GCM experiments with prescribed Eastern Tropical Pacific SSTs   wrf recording
Dong Eun Lee, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and D. G. Dewitt
4:45 PM8B.6Assessing the Skill of an All-season Statistical Forecast Model for the Madden-Julian Oscillation  
Xianan Jiang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, M. C. Wheeler, C. Jones, M. I. Lee, and S. Schubert
5:00 PM8B.7Verification of hemispheric-wide winter temperature forecasts based on fall snow and atmospheric anomalies   wrf recording
Judah Cohen, AER, Lexington, MA; and C. Fletcher
5:15 PM8B.8The Impact of air-sea coupling on boreal winter predictability in the Indo-Pacific   wrf recording
Kathy Pegion, COLA, Calverton, MD
 
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Wednesday 2008, R08-R09
Joint Panel Discussion 2 Enhancing the Connectivity between Research and Applications for the Benefit of Society Part II (Joint between the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 10th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the The Committee on Applied Climatology, the The Board on the Urban Environment, the The Measurements STAC, the 15th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA, and the Third Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research)
Panelists: Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; Kenneth Schere, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; S. Pal S. Arya, Department of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel/Georgia Institute of Technology, Boulder, CO; Anthony Brazel, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; John T. Snow, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Moderator: David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki Finland
 David M. Schultz   wrf recording
 Henry Reges   wrf recording
 Kenneth Schere   wrf recording
 S. Pal S. Arya  
 Heidi Cullen   wrf recording
 Anthony Brazel   wrf recording
 John T. Snow   wrf recording
 Panel Discussion  
 
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday 2008, 224
Joint Session 4 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part IV (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Hydrology and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
CoChair: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
8:30 AMJ4.1Initialization of LSM in JMANHM  
Daisuke Miura, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Oh'Izumi
8:45 AMJ4.2Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and links with Eurasian land-surface variability   wrf recording
Judah Cohen, AER, Lexington, MA; and M. Barlow, P. Kushner, and K. Saito
9:00 AMJ4.3Summer Season Predictions with the NCEP Coupled Forecast System Using Different Land Models and Different Initial Land States  
Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, J. Meng, H. Wei, and G. Gayno
9:15 AMJ4.4The Impact of using GLDAS/Noah initial land states on GFS Forecasts  
Helin Wei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell and J. Meng
9:30 AMJ4.5Soil Moisture, Evaporation and Convection: Do better land surface initial conditions produce a better precipitation forecast?  
Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. J. Alonge, J. A. Santanello, S. V. Kumar, J. L. Eastman, W. K. Tao, and J. J. Shi
9:45 AMJ4.6Verification of NAEFS land-surface forecasts   wrf recording
Wanru Wu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mo
 
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday 2008, 215-216
Session 9A General Climate Studies: Climate Dynamics
Chair: Toshiaki Shinoda, NOAA-CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM9A.1Zonal jet structure and the leading mode of variability   wrf recording
Dennis L. Hartmann, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. J. Eichelberger
8:45 AM9A.2Evolution and Structures of Tropical Instability Waves in the Pacific Ocean and Its Interannual Variation  extended abstract
Toshiaki Shinoda, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and G. Kiladis and P. E. Roundy
9:00 AM9A.3An investigation of cold-air cyclogenesis along the East Coast of the United States   wrf recording
Christopher J. Warren, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and E. G. Hoffman
9:15 AM9A.4Impact of Polar night jet on the Ural blocking circulation in boreal winter   wrf recording
Wen Zhou, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; and L. Wang, W. Chen, J. Chan, and R. H. Huang
9:30 AM9A.5Dynamical aspects of the 1993 upper Mississippi River Basin floods  
Ana M. B. Nunes, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. Roads
9:45 AM9A.6Indian ocean influences on North Atlantic climate  
Prashant Sardeshmukh, CDC/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin
 
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday 2008, 217-218
Session 9B Climate of the 20th Century (C20C) Part II
Chair: Adam A. Scaife, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, Devon United Kingdom
8:30 AM9B.1The evolution of ENSO-monsoon relationship in GCM experiments  
Emilia Kyung Jin, COLA, Calverton, MD; and J. L. Kinter
8:45 AM9B.2Understanding variations in ENSO impacts through a pacemaker ensemble  
Benjamin A. Cash, COLA, Calverton, MD
9:00 AM9B.3ENSO teleconnections in the South Pacific extratropical atmospheric circulation in the HADAM3 general circulation model   wrf recording
Steve Harangozo, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, Cambs, United Kingdom
9:15 AM9B.4The enhanced PNA-like climate response to Pacific interannual and decadal variability   wrf recording
Bin Yu, AES, Toronto, ON, Canada; and F. W. Zwiers and A. Shabbar
9:30 AM9B.5The North Pacific Oscillation/West Pacific teleconnection pattern: Mature phase structure   wrf recording
Megan Linkin, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Nigam
9B.6Why did the Western Pacific Subtropical High experience a westward extension in the past decades?  
Tianjun Zhou, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and R. Yu, J. Zhang, and H. Drange
9:45 AM9B.6AEast Asian Summer Monsoon's Response to SST, Greenhouse Gas, and Aerosol Forcings  
Hongmei Li, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Dai, T. Zhou, R. Yu, and J. Lu
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday 2008
Coffee Break (Wed a.m.)
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, 230
Joint Session 10 Climate Policy, Vulnerability, and Adaptation (Joint between the Third Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Cochairs: Juliane Fry, Reed College, Portland, OR; Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK
10:30 AMJ10.1Adaptive governance: proposals for climate change adaptation science, policy and decision making  
Amanda H. Lynch, Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia; and R. D. Brunner
10:45 AMJ10.2Robustness as a Framework for Climate Change Policy  
Zach Pirtle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
11:00 AMJ10.3Managing climate uncertainties   wrf recording
Marilyn Averill, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
11:15 AMJ10.4Carbon cycle feedbacks to warming imply a need for strong climate policy   wrf recording
Paul A. T. Higgins, AMS, Washington, DC
11:30 AMJ10.5State Climate Action Plans: The Opportunity for Adaptation Response   wrf recording
Susan K. Avery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA; and B. H. Udall
11:45 AMJ10.6Adaptation, policy research and the IPCC: Where are we going (and why am I in this hand basket)?   wrf recording
Roger Pulwarty, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO
 
10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Wednesday 2008, 224
Joint Session 5 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part V (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Hydrology and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
CoChair: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
10:30 AMJ5.1Investigation of Land Surface Conditions Impact on Processes and Predictability of the North American Monsoon   wrf recording
Xia Feng, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and M. G. Bosilovich, P. R. Houser, and J. D. Chern
10:45 AMJ5.2Soil moisture impacts on convective margins   wrf recording
Benjamin R. Lintner, Unversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin
J5.3Influence of sea surface temperature on soil moisture and precipitation interactions  
Kingtse Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
11:00 AMJ5.4Numerical model simulations of regional weather and climate impacts due to changes in historical landuse in lower Mississippi river valley  
Valentine Anantharaj, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS; and U. S. Nair, A. Song, L. Wasson, S. Christopher, P. J. Fitzpatrick, and R. King
11:15 AMJ5.5Detection and Analysis of the Climatic Signal of Land Use Change on the Tibetan Plateau   wrf recording
Jiming Jin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and N. L. Miller
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, 215-216
Session 10A General Climate Studies: Regional Analysis
Chair: Richard R. Heim, Jr., Scientific Services Division, National Climatic Data Center, NOAA, Asheville, NC
10:30 AM10A.1Putting current North America drought conditions into a multi-century perspective. Part 1: constructing the paleo drought dataset   wrf recording
Edward R. Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and R. S. Vose, R. R. Heim, and J. H. Lawrimore
10:45 AM10A.2Putting current North America drought conditions into a multi-century perspective. Part 2: Using the blended product in operational drought monitoring  extended abstract wrf recording
Richard Heim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. S. Vose, J. Lawrimore, and E. R. Cook
11:00 AM10A.3Contributions of Water Vapor and Temperature to the Interannual Variability of Precipitation: An Evaluation from North American Regional Reanalysis  
Er Lu, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and E. Takle
10A.4New climate dataset extends continuous U.S. weather records back over 100 years  
Raymond T. Truesdell, Information Manufacturing Corporation, Asheville, NC
11:15 AM10A.5Detection of trends in timing of low flows in Canadian stream flows  
Eghbal Ehsanzadeh, Ottawa University, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and K. Adamowski
11:30 AM10A.6Characteristics of ice cloud forcing due to ice clouds over the tropics   wrf recording
Gang Hong, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, 217-218
Session 10B Climate of the 20th Century (C20C) Part III
Chair: Fred Kucharski, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Italy
10:30 AM10B.1An assessment of low frequency changes in tropical cyclone formation in the North Atlantic basin   wrf recording
Philip Pegion, NASA/GSFC/GMAO/SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Schubert, M. Suarez, K. Emanuel, and J. Bacmeister
10:45 AM10B.2The summer North Atlantic Oscillation - past, present and future   wrf recording
Chris K. Folland, United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and H. Linderholm, J. Hurrell, S. Ineson, J. Knight, A. Scaife, and R. Eastman
11:00 AM10B.3Evidence of a late 20th century North Atlantic wet regime   wrf recording
Steven A. Mauget, USDA, Lubbock, Texas
11:15 AM10B.4Cluster analysis of North Atlantic / European circulation types and links with tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures   wrf recording
David Fereday, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and J. Knight, A. A. Scaife, and C. K. Folland
11:30 AM10B.5Summer daytime cooling trend in the north-central United States during the 20th century's peak global warming   wrf recording
Zaitao Pan, St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and M. Segal and X. Li
11:45 AM10B.6The effects of temperature and precipitation trends on U.S. drought  extended abstract wrf recording
David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Lawrimore, R. Heim, and T. W. R. Wallis
 
11:00 AM-6:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Exhibits Open (wednesday)
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday 2008
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry in Exhibit Hall) (Wednesday)
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, 215-216
Session 11A NOAA's Climate Test Bed (CTB)
CoChair: Ben P. Kirtman, COLA, Calverton, MD
Chair: Wayne Higgins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
1:30 PM11A.1Multi-model ENSO prediction with CFS and CCSM   wrf recording
Ben P. Kirtman, COLA, Calverton, MD
1:45 PM11A.2ENSO Variability and Predictability during 2005-2007   wrf recording
Dongxiao Zhang, NOAA/ERL/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and M. McPhaden
2:00 PM11A.3Using the NCEP Climate Test Bed to Execute and Assess Summer Season Predictions with the NCEP Coupled Forecast System (CFS) Using Different Land Models and Initial Land States   wrf recording
Kenneth Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Yang, J. Meng, H. Wei, and G. Gayno
2:15 PM11A.4Subseasonal prediction with the NCEP CFS: Forecast skill and prediction barriers for Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations   wrf recording
Augustin Vintzileos, EMC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA, Camp Springs, VA; and H. L. Pan
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, 217-218
Session 11B Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Lecturer: William Neff, NOAA/ESRL-PSD, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM11B.1Learning from Antarctica: Climate variability and change, stable boundary-layers and chemistry, and a few surprises on the high plateau   wrf recording
William Neff, NOAA/ESRL-PSD, Boulder, CO
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (wednesday p.m.)
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Joint Poster Session 2 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part II (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Hydrology and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
CoChair: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
 JP2.1Case studies of land atmosphere interaction within the 12km North American land data assimilation system (NLDAS-E) project  
Charles J. Alonge, NASA/GSFC and SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. A. Cosgrove
 JP2.2Impact of soil moisture initialization on numerical weather forecasting over the Mississippi Delta Region  extended abstract
Valentine Anantharaj, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and G. Mostovoy, U. S. Nair, and P. J. Fitzpatrick
 JP2.3Land-atmosphere coupling strength in the GEOS-5 AGCM  
Sarith Mahanama, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster, J. T. Bacmeister, R. H. Reichle, and M. J. Suarez
 JP2.4Retrospective forcing of the NCEP Noah land surface model with observations from the OASIS network  extended abstract
Michael P. Morris, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Benefield and J. B. Basara
 JP2.5Intercomparison of land surface process scheme in a global model: The single-column tests and seasonal prediction  
KyungHee Seol, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong, H. S. Kang, M. Kananitsu, and J. Roads
 JP2.6Multi-scale modeling of land-atmosphere interactions in the North American monsoon system  
Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
 JP2.7Examining the relationship between fall/spring soil moisture and summer precipitation in the northern Great Plains  extended abstract
Lei Meng, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. Quiring
 JP2.8Anabatic flow development in the context of atmospheric stability and resulting orographic convection: A cumulus photogrammetric, in-situ and Doppler observations (CuPIDO) study  
Cory Demko, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and B. Geerts
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 3 Climate Model and Prediction Poster Session
Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO
 P3.1Realtime GLDAS/LIS execution at NOAA/NCEP  
Jesse Meng, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, H. Wei, R. Yang, and C. Peters-Lidard
 P3.2Forecasting the Northern Australian Wet Season for Graziers  
Alexis Donald, Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia; and S. Lennox, M. C. Wheeler, F. Lo, and H. Meinke
 P3.3Assessing trends in observed and modelled climate extremes over Australia in relation to future projections  
Lisa V. Alexander, Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia; and J. Arblaster
 P3.4Simulated 21st century dynamics and hydrology of the Great Plains low-level jet  
Kerry H. Cook, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and C. M. Patricola, Z. S. Launer, and E. K. Vizy
 P3.5Simulating the precipitation interannual variability over South America using the NCEP Eta/AGCM nested model system  
Fernando H. De Sales, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Xue
 P3.6Forecasting cotton yields over the southeastern US using NCEP Climate Forecast System  extended abstract
Guillermo A. Baigorria, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and M. Chelliah, C. C. Romero, K. Mo, J. W. Jones, J. J. O'Brien, and R. W. Higgins
 P3.7The Diurnal Cycle in NASA's Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA)  
Myong-In Lee, UMBC/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Schubert
 P3.8An evaluation of climate model precipitation over the United States  extended abstract
Melissa S. Bukovsky, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly
 P3.9How sensitive are radiative properties of ice clouds in CAM3.0 to the ice crystal habit, inclusions and surface roughness?  
Zhibo Zhang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang
 P3.10Accurate and Fast Neural Network Emulations of Long Wave Radiation for the NCEP Climate Forecast System Model  
Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NCEP/NWS/NOAA (SAIC), Camp Springs, MD; and M. S. Fox-Rabinovitz, Y. T. Hou, S. J. Lord, and A. A. Belochitski
P3.11Evaluating the Surface Energy Budget in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model  
Daniel K. Bond, Howard Univeristy, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, S. Chiao, T. Creekmore, and M. Robjohn
 P3.12Effects of gravity wave drags induced by both orography and cumulus convection on the weather and climate prediction in a global model  
Jong-Hun Jeon, Yonsei University, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong
 P3.13On the evolution of initialized and model generated Tropical Storms in the NCEP Climate Forecasting System as a function of horizontal resolution  
Augustin Vintzileos, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, VA; and H. L. Pan and T. Marchok
 P3.15Characteristics in the moist process of JMA-GSM  
Kengo Miyamoto, AESTO/JMA, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Komori
P3.14Coherent structures in cold air outbreaks  
Ernest Agee, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and A. Gluhovsky
 P3.16Bias in dynamically downscaled precipitation data and its impact on simulated streamflow in climate change impact studies  
Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands; and R. McGrath, P. Lynch, T. Semmler, S. Wang, J. A. Hanafin, and P. Nolan
 P3.17Investigation of the cloud-radiation interaction in a general circulation model  
Suryun Ham, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong, Y. H. Byun, and J. Kim
 P3.18Precipitation intensity of East Asian summer monsoon in the 20th-century simulations by AOGCMs for the IPCC AR4  
Shoji Kusunoki, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and O. Arakawa, O. Arakawa, A. Kitoh, and A. Kitoh
 P3.19High-resolution simulation of the East Asian summer monsoon in the NCEP RSM  
Yoo-Bin Yhang, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong and H. S. Kang
 P3.20Twentieth-century temperature change as simulated by an atmospheric general circulation model  
Zaizhi Wang, Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and M. Dong, L. Wang, Q. Li, and T. Wu
 P3.21A modified dynamic framework for atmospheric spectral model and its application  
Tongwen Wu, Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and F. Zhang
 P3.22Development of a regional climate model (BCC_RegCM) and its simulation and hindcast over different regions  extended abstract
Yiming Liu, Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and Y. Ding, J. C. L. Chan, and S. Saeed
 P3.23Lyapunov exponents for barotropic circulation regimes  extended abstract
Athar Hussain, University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri; and A. R. Lupo and S. Dostoglou
 P3.24Examining wind energy's impact on local climate  
Amanda S. Adams, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; and D. W. Keith
 P3.25A global assessment of the joint distribution of twentieth-century temperature and precipitation in the CMIP3 coupled climate models  
F. Assis Souza Filho, International Reserarch Institute for Climate and Society - Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. M. Greene and U. Lall
 P3.26The role of water vapor feedback on the amplitude of season cycle in the global mean surface air temperature  
Qigang Wu, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly and G. R. North
 P3.27Implementation of a double-moment warm-phase microphysics in the WRF single-moment 6-class microphysics scheme  
Kyo-Sun Sunny Lim, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Hong and J. Dudhia
 P3.28A downscaled future climate over Asia using the NCEP regional spectral model  
E-Hyung Park, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong
 P3.29Extremes in high resolution regional climate model: Preliminary results of simulations in EC FP6 project CECILIA  
Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and M. Belda and J. Miksovsky
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Poster Session 4 Climate of the 20th Century (C20C) Poster Session
CoChair: James L. Kinter, III, COLA, Washington, DC
Chair: Chris K. Folland, United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Exeter, Devon United Kingdom
 P4.1Are Australian climate trends linear?  
David Jones, BOM, Vic., 3001, Australia; and R. Fawcett
 P4.2The three dimensional structure and time evolution of the decadal variability revealed in ECMWF reanalyses  extended abstract
Taehyoun Shim, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, South Korea; and G. H. Lim and D. I. Lee
 P4.3Low-frequency variability of the Indian Monsoon-ENSO relation and the Tropical Atlantic: The 'weakening' of the '80s and '90s  extended abstract
Fred Kucharski, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; and A. Bracco, J. H. Yoo, and F. Molteni
P4.4PAPER WITHDRAWN  
 P4.5Adjusting archived radiosonde data using complete validated and inferred radiosonde metadata to compute unbiased atmospheric temperature and moisture trends  extended abstract
Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
 P4.6Can stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen tell you which way the wind is blowing or has blown in the past?  
James Robert Lawrence, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and S. D. Gedzelman
 P4.7The myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus  extended abstract
Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and W. M. Connolley and J. Fleck
 P4.8El Nino teleconnections in an atmospheric model  
Sarah Ineson, Met Office Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and A. A. Scaife
P4.9Interaction between low frequency teleconnections and US precipitation  
Dagmar Budikova, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
 P4.10Intraseasonal Teleconnection between North American and Western North Pacific Monsoons with 20-day Time Scale  
Xianan Jiang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and N. C. Lau
 P4.11Study of the frequency of extreme daily precipitation on the south of Andes mountain range . Temporary variability in the period 1961-2003 and relation with the Antartic Oscillation  extended abstract
Federico Ariel Robledo, Departament of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and O. C. Penalba
 P4.12Response of the strating dates and the length of seasons and the Yellow River in mainland China to global warming  
Yundi Jiang, National climate center/China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
P4.13PAPER WITHDRAWN  
 P4.14Observations of a global-warming reverse-reaction: California coastal summer daytine cooling  
R. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and B. Lebassi, J. E. Gonzalez, D. Fabris, E. Maurer, N. L. Miller, and C. Milesi
 P4.15RAMS simulations of a global-warming reverse-reaction: California coastal summer daytime cooling  
B. Lebassi, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; and J. E. Gonzalez, D. Fabris, E. Maurer, N. L. Miller, C. Milesi, and R. Bornstein
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, 224
Joint Session 6 Advances in Atmospheric Reanalysis (Joint between the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 22nd Conference on Hydrology)
CoChair: J. Roads, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA
Chair: Michael Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
4:00 PMJ6.1Comparison of MERRA with ERA-40 on river basin scales   wrf recording
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and M. G. Bosilovich
4:15 PMJ6.2Evaluation of a reanalysis system with CEOP station observations and multi-model analysis   wrf recording
Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Mocko, J. O. Roads, and A. K. Betts
4:30 PMJ6.3Dominant balances and exchanges of the atmospheric water cycle in the Reanalysis-2 at diurnal, annual, and intraseasonal time scales   wrf recording
A.C. Ruane, NASA/GISS and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, New York, NY; and J. O. Roads
4:45 PMJ6.4A preliminary study of global water and energy cycles in a NASA reanalysis system  extended abstract wrf recording
Junye Chen, Univ. of Maryland/ESSIC & NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and M. G. Bosilovich
5:00 PMJ6.5Simulated Land Surface Hydrological Variability and Their Impacts on Weather and Climate Anomalies Over the US   wrf recording
Yun Fan, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC/RSIS, Camp Springs, MD; and H. Van den Dool
5:15 PMJ6.6A regional re-analysis approach for modeling the West African monsoon rainfall diurnal cycle   wrf recording
Massimiliano Pasqui, Institute of Biometeorology - National Research Council (IBIMET-CNR), Firenze, FI, Italy; and F. Guarnieri and S. Melani
 
4:00 PM-5:15 PM, Wednesday 2008, 223
Joint Session 7 Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part VI (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Hydrology and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
CoChair: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
4:00 PMJ7.1Response of the mean global vegetation distribution to interannual climate variability   wrf recording
Michael Notaro, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
4:15 PMJ7.2A modeling and observational framework for diagnosing local land-atmosphere coupling on diurnal time scales  extended abstract wrf recording
Joseph A. Santanello Jr., ESSIC/UMCP and NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard and S. V. Kumar
4:30 PMJ7.3Control of Surface Temperature Gradient over West Africa   wrf recording
Man-li Wu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Schubert, O. Reale, M. Suarez, R. D. Koster, and P. Pegion
4:45 PMJ7.4Lake Breeze simulation using an integrated RAMS and LIS modeling systems evaluated using ARMOR radar observations   wrf recording
Salvi Asefi, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, V. Anantharaj, K. Knupp, and Y. Wu
J7.5Simulated future river discharges under IPCC SRES scenarios: Yangtze, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Blue Nile and Murray-Darling  
Jun Jian, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. Webster
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, 215-216
Session 12 Detection and attribution of climate change: Part I
Chair: Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO
4:00 PM12.1The mid-1970s climate shift in the Pacific and the relative roles of forced versus inherent decadal variability   wrf recording
Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Hu and B. D. Santer
4:15 PM12.2Oceanic Influences on Recent Continental Warming   wrf recording
Gilbert P. Compo, Climate Diagnostics Center/CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Sardeshmukh
4:30 PM12.3Relationships between global precipitation and surface temperature on inter-annual and longer time scales during 1979-2006   wrf recording
Robert Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Gu and G. J. Huffman
4:45 PM12.4Correlations between temperature and precipitable water over the oceans   wrf recording
Carl. A. Mears, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz, B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, and M. F. Wehner
 12.5 is now 14A.4A  
5:00 PM12.5AThe relative importance of tropical variability forced from the North Pacific through ocean pathways  
Amy B. Solomon, NOAA/CIRES-CDC, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin, M. A. Alexander, and J. P. McCreary
 12.6 is now 14A.3A  
5:15 PM12.6AObserved and Modeled Drivers of Arctic Change   wrf recording
Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and E. Hunter
 
5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) (Wednesday)
 
7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday 2008
AMS Annual Awards Banquet at the Hilton Riverside Hotel
 
Thursday, 24 January 2008
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday 2008, 215-216
Session 13A Detection and attribution of climate change: Part II
Chair: Gilbert P. Compo, Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM13A.1Scalar trend prediction in climate change   wrf recording
Stephen S. Leroy, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and J. A. Dykema and J. G. Anderson
8:45 AM13A.2Detecting a greenhouse warming signal using only maximum daily temperatures   wrf recording
Richard T. McNider, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Christy and W. B. Norris
9:00 AM13A.3Asymmetries in spring and autumn temperature trends over western North America: The role of circulation   wrf recording
John T. Abatzoglou, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond
13A.4An assessment of regional record-breaking statistics in annual mean temperature  
Hans Von Storch, Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; and E. Zorita
9:15 AM13A.4ATrends in the onset, severity and duration of the North American Monsoon (1918–2006)   wrf recording
Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. M. Nordfelt
9:30 AM13A.5Attributing Anthropogenic Climate Influence on Observed Changes in Physical and Biological Systems   wrf recording
David J. Karoly, Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; and C. Rosenzweig
 
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday 2008, 217-218
Session 13B Climate Modeling and Diagnostics Part I
Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM13B.1US CLIVAR MJO Working Group: MJO Climate Simulation Diagnostics   wrf recording
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and K. R. Sperber, L. Donner, J. Gottschalck, H. H. Hendon, W. Higgins, I. S. Kang, D. Kim, E. D. Maloney, M. W. Moncrieff, S. Schubert, W. Stern, F. Vitart, B. Wang, W. Wang, K. M. Weickmann, M. C. Wheeler, S. Woolnough, and C. Zhang
8:45 AM13B.2The importance of high-frequency sea-surface temperatures to the intraseasonal variability of the Indian summer monsoon  extended abstract wrf recording
Nicholas P. Klingaman, Walker Institute for Climate System Research, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and P. M. Inness, J. M. Slingo, and H. Weller
9:00 AM13B.3Coupled Model Simulations of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal (30-50 day) Variability, Part 1: Systematic Errors and Caution on Use of Metrics   wrf recording
Kenneth R. Sperber, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and H. Annamalai
9:15 AM13B.4Tropical influences on southwest Asia precipitation in a global atmospheric model   wrf recording
Andrew Hoell, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA; and M. Barlow and F. P. Colby
9:30 AM13B.5Development and application of a coupled regional atmosphere-ocean model: air-sea interaction of the tropical instability waves over the Atlantic ocean  
Jen-Shan Hsieh, Department of Oceanography, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX; and C. Wen, P. Chang, and R. Saravanan
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday 2008, Exhibit Hall B
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Thurs a.m.)
 
11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Exhibits Open (thurs)
 
11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday 2008, 215-216
Session 14A Detection and attribution of climate change: Part III
Chair: Gerald L. Potter, LLNL, Livermore, CA
11:00 AM14A.1Changes and Variations in Continental Freshwater Discharge from 1949-2004   wrf recording
Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Qian and K. E. Trenberth
11:15 AM14A.2Arctic Report Card shows continuing change in most environmental indicators  extended abstract wrf recording
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. A. Richter-Menge, J. E. Overland, and J. Calder
 Paper 14A.3 is now 12.6A  
11:30 AM14A.3AMid-tropospheric Temperature Quasi-biannual Variability   wrf recording
Hartmut H. Aumann, JPL, Pasadena, CA
 Paper 14A.4 is now 12.5A  
11:45 AM14A.4AEffect of desert dust on the biological activity of ocean surface   wrf recording
Vani Starry Manoharan, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair and R. M. Welch
12:00 PM14A.5An examination of the interannual and multidecadal variability of drought in the United States   wrf recording
Jose Maliekal, The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
 
11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday 2008, 217-218
Session 14B Climate Modeling and Diagnostics Part II
Chair: Duane E. Waliser, JPL, Pasadena, CA
11:00 AM14B.1A Test of the Simulation of Tropical Convective Cloudiness by a Cloud-Resolving Model   wrf recording
Dennis L. Hartmann, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. A. Lopez, P. N. Blossey, R. Wood, C. S. Bretherton, and T. L. Kubar
11:15 AM14B.2Comparisons of CloudSat Upper Level Cloud Measurements with EOS MLS Measurements, ECMWF, GEOS5 Analyses and GCM Simulations  
Jui-Lin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Waliser, C. P. Woods, J. D. Chern, J. Jiang, J. Bacmeister, A. M. Tompkins, W. -. K. Tao, D. G. Vane, and G. Stephens
11:30 AM14B.3Evaluating water vapor in the NCAR CAM3 climate model with RRTMG/McICA using modeled and observed AIRS spectral radiances  extended abstract
Michael J. Iacono, AER, Lexington, MA
11:45 AM14B.4Using Metrics to Explore the Relationship Between Simulated Mean Climate and Variability  
Peter J. Gleckler, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and K. R. Sperber and K. E. Taylor
12:00 PM14B.5Diagnosing effective heat capactity in the IPCC AR4 model runs   wrf recording
Daniel B. Kirk-Davidoff, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Kleidon
 
12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday 2008
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry in Exhibit Hall) (Thurs)
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday 2008, 215-216
Session 15A Detection and attribution of climate change: Part IV
Chair: Muyin Wang, University of Washington, Seattle,, WA
1:30 PM15A.1Interactions between ozone and climate: 1960-2100   wrf recording
Steven Pawson, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. S. Stolarski, A. R. Douglass, J. Perlwitz, and J. E. Nielsen
1:45 PM15A.2Historical trends in the jet streams  extended abstract wrf recording
Cristina L. Archer, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, CA; and K. Caldeira
2:00 PM15A.3Trends in extreme snowfall years in the contiguous U.S   wrf recording
Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and M. A. Palecki, L. Ensor, D. A. Robinson, K. G. Hubbard, D. R. Easterling, and K. T. Redmond
2:15 PM15A.4Climate and wind energy: recent trends in wind speed and potential effects of climate change   wrf recording
Jeffrey M. Freedman, AWS Truewind LLC, Albany, NY; and J. W. Zack and B. H. Bailey
2:30 PM15A.5A preliminary assessment of future changes in the severe thunderstorm environment in North America   wrf recording
Patrick T. Marsh, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly and H. E. Brooks
2:45 PM15A.6Impact of climate change in the Po valley: downscaling high resolution RegCM output by coupling with ChYM hydrological model   wrf recording
Erika Coppola, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy; and F. Giorgi, X. Gao, B. Tomassetti, and M. Verdecchia
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday 2008, 217-218
Session 15B Climate Modeling and Diagnostics Part III
Chair: A.C. Ruane, NASA/GISS and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, New York, NY
1:30 PM15B.1An alternate grid technique for GCMs: results of running physics and dynamics on different grids   wrf recording
Andrea M. Molod, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1:45 PM15B.2Implementing a double Fourier series dynamic core into a global atmospheric model   wrf recording
Hoon Park, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong and H. B. Cheong
2:00 PM15B.3Using the "radiative kernel" technique to calculate climate feedbacks in NCAR's Community Atmospheric Model   wrf recording
Karen M. Shell, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and J. T. Kiehl and C. A. Shields
2:15 PM15B.4A new parameterization of gravity wave drag based on ray theory for use in GCMs   wrf recording
Hye-Yeong Chun, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and H. J. Choi and I. S. Song
2:30 PM15B.5Diagnosing structural errors in climate model parameterizations  extended abstract wrf recording
Vincent E. Larson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and J. C. Golaz, J. Hansen, D. P. Schanen, and B. M. Griffin
2:45 PM15B.6Grid-scale relationship between precipitation and topography in a global 20km-mesh atmospheric GCM   wrf recording
Osamu Arakawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. Kamiguchi and A. Kitoh
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday 2008, Exhibit Hall A
Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle (Thurs)
 
3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Thursday 2008, 215-216
Session 16 Climate Modeling and Diagnostics Part IV
Chair: Timothy Eichler, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Mo
3:30 PM16.1A Southern Ocean cyclone climatology based on high resolution NWP model output   wrf recording
Amanda Lynch, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; and P. Uotila and J. J. Cassano
3:45 PM16.2Climatology and interannual variability of mid-latitude storms in the NCEP CFS model   wrf recording
Timothy Eichler, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Mo; and W. Higgins
4:00 PM16.3Regional-scale processes associated with future summer drying over Central America   wrf recording
Sara A. Rauscher, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; and F. Giorgi and N. S. Diffenbaugh
4:15 PM16.4Modeling Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Peru Current System   wrf recording
Dian A. Putrasahan, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and H. Seo, A. J. Miller, and J. O. Roads
4:30 PM16.5The global hydrological and energy cycles at Last Glacial Maximum in CCSM3  extended abstract wrf recording
Melissa A. Burt, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Randall and B. Otto-Bliesner
 
4:45 PM, Thursday 2008
Conference Ends
 

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