85th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 2: Climate Predictions on Seasonal and Interannual Time Scales: 1(parallel with Session 1)

Monday, 10 January 2005: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Chair:  Aiguo Dai, NCAR
Papers:
  1:30 PM
2.1
Sensitivity of North American Precipitation and Temperature to Tropical Indian, Pacific and Atlantic ocean SST anomalies throughout the year.
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Barsugli and S. I. Shin

  1:45 PM
2.2
  2:00 PM
2.3
Understanding the sensitivity of North American drought to Tropical Pacific SSTs in present and past climates
Sang-Ik Shin, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Webb, P. D. Sardeshmukh, R. J. Oglesby, and J. J. Barsugli

  2:15 PM
2.4
  2:30 PM
2.5
Forecasting global temperatures one year ahead
Chris K. Folland, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and A. W. Colman

  2:45 PM
2.6
Examination of the Hydrologic Feedback Pathway for Land-Climate Coupling
Paul A. Dirmeyer, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD; and T. DelSole

  3:00 PM
2.7
Evaluation of the Use of Forecast Interpretations information
Diego H. Pedreros, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and A. Bonilla, P. Ramirez, C. Funk, G. Husak, J. Michaelsen, and L. Aguilar

  3:15 PM
2.8
  3:45 PM
Seasonal predictability and the land/air interaction
M. Zhao, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break