| Session 9A | 
|  | General Climate Studies: Climate Dynamics | 
|  | Chair: Toshiaki Shinoda, NOAA-CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO 
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|  | 8:30 AM | 9A.1 | Zonal jet structure and the leading mode of variability  Dennis L. Hartmann, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. J. Eichelberger
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|  | 8:45 AM | 9A.2 | Evolution and Structures of Tropical Instability Waves in the Pacific Ocean and Its Interannual Variation   Toshiaki Shinoda, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and G. Kiladis and P. E. Roundy
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|  | 9:00 AM | 9A.3 | An investigation of cold-air cyclogenesis along the East Coast of the United States  Christopher J. Warren, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and E. G. Hoffman
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|  | 9:15 AM | 9A.4 | Impact of Polar night jet on the Ural blocking circulation in boreal winter  Wen Zhou, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; and L. Wang, W. Chen, J. Chan, and R. H. Huang
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|  | 9:30 AM | 9A.5 | Dynamical aspects of the 1993 upper Mississippi River Basin floods Ana  M. B. Nunes, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. Roads
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|  | 9:45 AM | 9A.6 | Indian ocean influences on North Atlantic climate Prashant Sardeshmukh, CDC/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin
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