Session 12 |
| Detection and attribution of climate change: Part I |
| Chair: Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 4:00 PM | 12.1 | The mid-1970s climate shift in the Pacific and the relative roles of forced versus inherent decadal variability Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Hu and B. D. Santer |
| 4:15 PM | 12.2 | Oceanic Influences on Recent Continental Warming Gilbert P. Compo, Climate Diagnostics Center/CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Sardeshmukh |
| 4:30 PM | 12.3 | Relationships between global precipitation and surface temperature on inter-annual and longer time scales during 1979-2006 Robert Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Gu and G. J. Huffman |
| 4:45 PM | 12.4 | Correlations between temperature and precipitable water over the oceans 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
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| 5:00 PM | 12.5A | The 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
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| 5:15 PM | 12.6A | Observed and Modeled Drivers of Arctic Change Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and E. Hunter |