89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 9A: Prediction of climate on seasonal to decadal timescales - II

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
Papers:
  10:30 AM
Can large scale climate controls help predict seasonal tornado activity?
Brittany L. Perrin, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and K. Hughes and A. R. Lupo

  10:45 AM
Predictibility of seasonal and interannual variability from the long term trend: Defining the climate state
Dan C. Collins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and D. A. Unger and E. A. O'Lenic

  11:00 AM
NAEFS/GEFS extended forecast
Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth, D. Hou, M. Peņa, Q. Zhang, and J. Gottschalck

  11:15 AM
Seasonal prediction with CCSM3.0: Role and dynamics of circulation regimes
David M. Straus, George Mason University, Beltsville, MD; and D. Paolino

  11:30 AM
  11:45 AM
North pacific gyre oscillation synchronizes climate fluctuations in the eastern and western north pacific
Lina I. Ceballos, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and E. Di Lorenzo, N. Schneider, and C. D. Hoyos