Session 6 | 
|   | Global dynamics and processes | 
|   | Chair: Gerald L. Potter, Univ. of California Davis, Davis, CA 
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 | 1:30 PM | 6.1 | Stochastic processes in climate modeling: from Lorenz to the El-Niņo recharge oscillator and beyond    Michael Ghil, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and M. D. Chekroun and E. Simonnet | 
 | 1:45 PM | 6.2 | Evaluating the physics of climate models using satellite observations and high-resolution models: the GCSS/WGNE Pacific Cross-section Intercomparison (GPCI)    Joao Teixeira, JPL, Pasadena, CA | 
 | 2:00 PM | 6.3 | Observed Relationships between Global Precipitation and Surface Temperature on Inter-annual and Longer Time Scales     Robert F. Adler, ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Gu and G. J. Huffman | 
 | 2:15 PM | 6.4 | Water vapor variability on daily to decadal timescales     T. H. Vonder Haar, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe | 
 | 2:30 PM | 6.5 | Sensitivity of Global Warming Prediction to Surface Latent Heat Flux: Relative Humidity Feedback     Jian (Tony) Ma, AGU, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie and I. Richter |