Session 3 |
| | El Nino and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) |
| | Cochairs: Niklas Schneider, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; De-Zheng Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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| 8:00 AM | 3.1 | An Overview of Understanding ENSO
Chunzai Wang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL |
| 8:30 AM | 3.1A | The Sleeping Dragon slumbered while El Nino was in the Greenhouse
Matthew Huber, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and R. Caballero |
| 9:00 AM | 3.2 | The termination of El Niņo events
Gabriel A. Vecchi, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and D. E. Harrison |
| 9:15 AM | 3.3 | Kelvin wave amplification facilitated by air-sea interactions during El Niņo development  
Paul Roundy, CIRES and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and G. N. Kiladis |
| 9:30 AM | 3.4 | Low frequency variation of westerly wind events regulated by ENSO SST
Lisan Yu, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA |
| 9:45 AM | 3.5 | Role of Indian Ocean SST on developing El Niņo and tropical west Pacific convection
H Annamalai, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie, J. McCreary, and P. Liu |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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|  | 3.6 | The effect of subtropical cooling on the amplitude of ENSO: a numerical study
De-Zheng Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and T. Zhang and S. I. Shin |
| 10:45 AM | 3.7 | On the reliability of climate dynamical predictions
Youmin Tang, New York Univ., New York, NY; and R. Kleeman and A. M. Moore |
| 11:00 AM | 3.8 | The New Seasonal Forecast Model at NCEP
S. Saha, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wang, S. Nadiga, H. L. Pan, and G. White |
| 11:15 AM | 3.9 | ENSO Nonlinearity
Fei-Fei Jin, Florida State Uinversity, Tallahassee, FL |
| 11:30 AM | 3.10 | Interdecadal changes in the nonlinearity of ENSO
S.-I. An, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI |
| 11:45 AM | 3.11 | ENSO-like decadal variability as the "debris" of interannual ENSO
Daniel J. Vimont, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 12:00 PM | 3.12 | ENSO and decadal variations in the U. Hawaii hybrid CGCM
Xiouhua Fu, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang and F. F. Jin |