89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 11B: Seasonal-interannual variability - I

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 4:15 PM-5:30 PM
Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Juliane Fry, Reed College
Papers:
  4:15 PM
Dry and wet periods in the Northwestern Maghreb for present day and future climate conditions
Andreas H. Fink, Univ. of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and M. Christoph, K. Born, and H. Paeth

  4:30 PM
The climate of 2008 in historical perspective
Richard Heim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. Gleason, K. Shein, A. Sanchez-Lugo, M. J. Brewer, and E. Godfrey

  5:00 PM
The 2007/08 La Nina Cycle: Evolution and Prediction
Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Huang, W. Wang, A. Kumar, P. Pegion, and M. LHeureux

  5:30 PM
A new and improved Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)
Klaus Wolter, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and M. Timlin