Session 4 |
| | Observed Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability (parallel with Sessions 3 and 5) |
| | Cochairs: Bradfield L Lyon, IRI, Palisades, NY; Sumant Nigam, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 4.1 | Effects of atmospheric composition on radiation balance, cloud microphysics and Indian summer monsoon rainfall  
Prabir K. Patra, Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan; and S. K. Behera, J. R. Herman, H. Akimoto, and T. Yamagata |
| 8:45 AM | 4.2 | The direct effect of summertime ENSO conditions on the South Asian monsoons: barotropic and baroclinic teleconnection mechanisms
Jeffrey Shaman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and E. Tziperman |
| 9:00 AM | 4.3 | ENSO influence on Atlantic hurricanes via tropospheric warming
Brian H Tang, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin |
| 9:15 AM | 4.4 | ENSO and the spatial extent of interannual precipitation extremes in tropical land areas
Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY |
| 9:30 AM | 4.5 | Stationary wave configuration associated with principal modes of variability of the tropical upper tropospheric flow
Ioana M. Dima, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. M. Wallace |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 4.6 | QE or not QE: vertical profiles of temperature perturbations in the tropical atmosphere
Christopher E. Holloway, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin |
| 11:15 AM | 4.7 | Interannual variations in tropical upper-tropospheric humidity: Understanding tropical convective and dynamical processes
Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and D. E. Fitzjarrald and T. L. Miller |
| 11:30 AM | 4.8 | Intraseasonal variability of cloudiness and rainfall in the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Katherine H. Straub, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA; and D. K. Strahan and G. N. Kiladis |
| 11:45 AM | 4.9 | Scale interactions within the Madden-Julian Oscillation
George N. Kiladis, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and K. H. Straub and P. T. Haertel |
| 12:00 PM | 4.10 | Easterly waves in the tropical Atlantic: Climatology and variability
Christina M. Patricola, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook |
| 12:15 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 4.11 | An evaluation of January temperature anomalies in the United States utilizing a synoptic climatological approach
Melissa Lynn Malin, Center for Climatic Research, Newark, DE; and K. L. Frank, S. Quiring, and L. S. Kalkstein |
| 1:45 PM | 4.12 | Stratosphere-Troposphere coupling during spring onset
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. A. McDaniel and W. A. Robinson |
| 2:00 PM | 4.13 | The nonlinear association between the Arctic Oscillation and North American winter temperature and precipitation
Aiming Wu, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh and A. Shabbar |
| 2:15 PM | 4.14 | Low frequency variability of the Southern Hemisphere winter split jet
Xiaosong Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY; and E. K. M. Chang |
| 2:30 PM | 4.15 | Quasi-stationary anticyclones in the Northern Hemisphere: An analysis of interannual and interdecadal variability and long-term trends at 1000 hPa and 500 hPa using a geometric definition
Mikhail Bardin, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia; and G. V. Gruza, A. R. Lupo, I. I. Mokhov, and V. A. Tikhonov |
| 2:45 PM | 4.16 | Annual cycle of equivalent ocean heat content and ocean heat transport divergence inferred from atmospheric heat budgets.
Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Fasullo |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 4.17 | Mulit-year variability of salinity in the northern hemisphere oceans
Tim P Boyer, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Levitus and J. Antonov |
| 3:45 PM | 4.18 | Hydrological budget in the tropical Pacific
Xiaosu Xie, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu |
| 4:00 PM | 4.19 | The Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation and its climatic impacts
Chris K. Folland, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and B. Dong, R. J. Allan, H. Meinke, and B. Bhaskaran |
| 4:15 PM | 4.20 | Does ENSO lead the Pacific interdecadal change?
SOON-IL An, International Pacific Research Center, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and J. S. Kug and I. S. Kang |
| 4:30 PM | 4.21 | ENSO-forced Decadal Variability in the North Pacific
Matt Newman, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO |
| 4:45 PM | 4.22 | Diurnal cycle of cloud and precipitation associated with the North American Monsoon System: Preliminary results for 2003 and 2004
Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Yarosh, M. Chen, R. Joyce, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin |
| 5:00 PM | 4.23 | Interannual Variability of Surface Radiation Budget
Shashi K. Gupta, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, S. J. Cox, J. C. Mikovitz, M. Chiacchio, and T. Zhang |
| 5:15 PM | 4.24 | Statistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data to Study Climate Sensitivities
Kuan-Man Xu, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki and T. Wong |