89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 13: Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 2

Thursday, 15 January 2009: 11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR
Papers:
  11:00 AM
Indian Ocean capacitor effect: El Nino's long grip on the Asian-western Pacific summer monsoon
Shang-Ping Xie, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Du, Y. Du, J. Hafner, J. Hafner, H. Tokinaga, K. Hu, T. Sampe, G. Huang, H. Tokinaga, and T. Sampe

  11:15 AM
  11:30 AM
The impact of the mean state on the ENSO simulation and prediction
Xiaohua Pan, George Mason Univ./COLA, Beltsville, MD; and J. Shukla and B. Huang

  11:45 AM
Mean state and SST variability of the South-Eastern Pacific: a model study
Thomas Toniazzo, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

  12:00 PM
Seasonal Cycle-ENSO Interactions: Validation of Hypotheses
Heng Xiao, Dept. of Atmos. and Oceanic Sci., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso