Session: Observed Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability (parallel with Sessions 3 and 5) (85th AMS Annual Meeting)

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

http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/research/p3/prabir/anim_ai.htm

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (606.4 kB)

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

9:45 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

Recorded presentation

10:00 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

10:15 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

Recorded presentation

10:30 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

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

4.10

Easterly waves in the tropical Atlantic: Climatology and variability

Christina M. Patricola, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook

11:00 AM

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

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

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

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

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

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

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

Recorded presentation

12:00 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

Poster PDF (289.7 kB)

12:15 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

Recorded presentation

12:30 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

Recorded presentation

12:45 PM

4.18

Hydrological budget in the tropical Pacific

Xiaosu Xie, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

1:00 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

Recorded presentation

1:15 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

Recorded presentation

1:30 PM

4.21

ENSO-forced Decadal Variability in the North Pacific

Matt Newman, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

1:45 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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (148.2 kB)

2:00 PM

4.23

Interannual Variability of Surface Radiation Budget

Shashi K. Gupta, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse Jr., S. J. Cox, J. C. Mikovitz, M. Chiacchio, and T. Zhang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (278.9 kB)

2:15 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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (131.7 kB)

2:30 PM

4.5a

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

3:45 PM

4.10a

Lunch Break

5:00 PM

4.16a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Session 4: Observed Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability (parallel with Sessions 3 and 5)