Session 12 |
| | Monsoons: Observations and Modeling |
| | Chair: Winston Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 12.1 | The origin of monsoons: The role of continental-scale landmass
Winston Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 1:45 PM | 12.2 | A three-stage conceptual model for South American monsoon onset
Rosana Nieto Ferreira, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and T. M. Rickenbach |
| 2:00 PM | 12.3 | Spatial and temporal distribution of latent heating in the south-Asian monsoon region
Manuel D. Zuluaga, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. D. Hoyos and P. J. Webster |
| 2:15 PM | 12.4 | A systematic investigation of the influence of large-scale sea-surface temperature variability on South Asian monsoon precipitation
Sara C. Vieira, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster |
| 2:30 PM | 12.5 | The physical mechanism for the Tropical Atlantic influence on African and Indian Monsoon and its representation in the AR4 models in the 20th century
Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and F. Kucharski and R. Barimalala |
| 2:45 PM | 12.6 | A role of the monsoon-Indian Ocean interactions in the In-Phase Transition of the Indian-to-Australian Summer Monsoon
Eun-Chul Chang, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong, S. W. Yeh, and R. Wu |