89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 12A: Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 1

Thursday, 15 January 2009: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Ocean-atmosphere coupling on different temporal and spatial scales
Lei Zhou, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and R. Murtugudde

  8:45 AM
Air-sea heat fluxes and the dynamics of intraseasonal variability
Adam H. Sobel, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, and Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia Univ., new York, NY; and E. D. Maloney, G. Bellon, and D. M. W. Frierson

  9:00 AM
  9:15 AM
An assessment of the Forecast Capability for BSISO by the NCEP Operational Global Forecast Systems
Mingyue Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wang and A. Kumar

  9:30 AM
External influences on the variability of the monsoon
Sara Vieira, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster