Session: Decadal-Multidecadal Variability in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Basins: Part 1 (96th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Thursday, 14 January 2016: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM

Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair:

Benjamin J. Henley, University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences, Parkville

Ocean surface/subsurface structure; ocean-atmosphere-land-cryosphere interactions; hydroclimate impacts (e.g., droughts) and mechanisms; potential predictability; experimental prediction (statistical/ dynamical).

Papers:

8:30 AM

11B.1

Initialized Decadal Prediction for Transition to Positive Phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation and Resumption of Larger Rates of Global Warming

Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Hu and H. Teng

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

11B.2

Why Was It so Wet in Winter 2013–14 over North West Europe?

Jeff Knight, Met Office Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and A. Maidens, D. Fereday, C. Folland, A. Scaife, and G. Brunet

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

11B.3

Is the PDO a Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Process?

Natalie Perlin, RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and B. P. Kirtman

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.3 MB)

9:15 AM

11B.4

Decadal Variability in the Pacific: observations, modelling and palaeoclimate

Benjamin J. Henley, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia; and D. J. Karoly, J. Gergis, and M. Freund

Recorded Presentation