Session 6 |
| | Tropical Variability Part II: Air-sea Interaction in the Atlantic Ocean |
| | Chair: Bin Wang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
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| 10:30 AM | 6.1 | Air-sea interactions associated with internal oceanic variability in the tropics
Raghu Murtugudde, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Jochum |
| 11:00 AM | 6.2 | The role of an atmospehric shallow meridional circulation in tropical air-sea interaction
Chidong Zhang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL |
| 11:15 AM | 6.3 | Application of the ARGO data in improving the oceanic model
Renhe Zhang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and Y. Yin and L. Shi |
| 11:30 AM | 6.4 | Can continental rainfall influence climate variability over tropical Atlantic Ocean
Rong Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. Chen and H. Wang |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 6.5 | Interaction of the Atlantic equatorial cold tongue and African monsoon
Shang-Ping Xie, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Okumura |
| 1:45 PM | 6.6 | Observed air-sea interaction in the tropical and North Atlantic
Claude Frankignoul, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France |
| 2:15 PM | 6.7 | Tropical Atlantic SST Forcing of Coupled North Atlantic Seasonal Responses
Shiling Peng, NOAA/CDC and CIRES, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson, S. Li, and M. P. Hoerling |