88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 10B: Climate of the 20th Century (C20C) Part III

Wednesday, 23 January 2008: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
217-218 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Fred Kucharski, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Papers:
  10:30 AM
An assessment of low frequency changes in tropical cyclone formation in the North Atlantic basin
Philip Pegion, NASA/GSFC/GMAO/SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Schubert, M. Suarez, K. Emanuel, and J. Bacmeister

  10:45 AM
The summer North Atlantic Oscillation - past, present and future
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

  11:15 AM
Cluster analysis of North Atlantic / European circulation types and links with tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures
David Fereday, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and J. Knight, A. A. Scaife, and C. K. Folland

  11:45 AM
The effects of temperature and precipitation trends on U.S. drought
David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Lawrimore, R. Heim, and T. W. R. Wallis