Session 9B | 
|   | Observed Seasonal to Interannual Variability: II | 
|   | Chair: Derek S. Arndt, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC 
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 | 4:00 PM | 9B.1 | The climate of 2009 in historical perspective     Derek S. Arndt, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. Sánchez-Lugo, J. Crouch, R. R. Heim Jr., and C. Fenimore | 
 | 4:15 PM | 9B.2 | Three-dimensional characterization of boreal spring-summer climate variability over West Africa     Isaac K. Tetteh, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and F. H. M. Semazzi | 
 | 4:30 PM | 9B.3 | Seasonal differences in tropical intraseasonal variability over South America from the NCEP reanalysis    Fernando Hirata, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. D. Hoyos and P. J. Webster | 
 | 4:45 PM | 9B.4 | The influence of Indian Ocean convection on cold season Central-Southwest Asian precipitation extremes    Andrew Hoell, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and M. Barlow | 
 | 5:00 PM | 9B.5 | Interannual variations of surface radiation budget     Pamela E. Mlynczak, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and P. W. Stackhouse Jr. | 
 | 5:15 PM | 9B.6 | Trends, Variability and Extremes of Summer Drought in the Midwest United States: the Role of Climate Variability and Snow Storage    Vimal Mishra, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and K. A. Cherkauer |