|  | 12.3 | Factors controlling decadal variations in ENSO-teleconnections and seasonal climate predictions
Martin P. Hoerling, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO; and A. Kumar |
| 8:30 AM | 12.4 | Teleconnections and local response to tropical SST anomalies
Hui Su, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin, C. Chou, and N. Zeng |
| 8:45 AM | 12.5 | Forecast of tropical Pacific SST and Sea Level using Markov models
Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD |
| 9:00 AM | 12.6 | Understanding the annual cycle of equatorial Pacific as a result of ocean-atmosphere-land interactions
Xiouhua Fu, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang |
| 9:15 AM | 12.7 | An assessment of the association between the Arctic Oscillation and Northern Hemisphere temperature
Anthony J. Broccoli, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. L. Delworth and N. C. Lau |
| 9:30 AM | 12.8 | Anomaly Forcing in an Ensemble Regional Climate Model Simulation
Jan F. Dutton, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and E. J. Barron |
| 9:45 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:15 AM | 12.9 | Assessment of the Utility of the Regional Climate Simulations in the Prediction of Drought
Ana P. Barros, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and G. S. Jenkins and R. Bindlish |
| 10:30 AM | 12.10 | Regional climate simulation of the anomalous U.S. Climate events with a variable resolution stretched grid GCM
Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and L. Takacs and M. J. Suarez |
| | 12.11 | Examining interannual variability in West Africa from the NCEP reanalyses and the CCM3 for the period of 1979-1993
Gregory S. Jenkins, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and J. C. Mikovitz |
| | 12.12 | Climate variability and change, scale-interactions and precipitation processes in West Africa. Limitations and challenges of modeling efforts
Gregory S. Jenkins, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and A. Gabra |
| | 12.13 | Simulation of a squall line associated with an african easterly wave: sensitivity to the parameterization of convection
M. Diop, Direction de la Meteorologie Nationale, Dakar-Yoff, Senegal; and J. F. Gueremy and J. P. Ceron |
| 10:45 AM | 12.14 | Non-modal growth in ENSO and its interdecadal change
Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD |
| 11:00 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 12:30 PM | 12.15 | The SST Anomalies Dipole in the Extratropical Pacific and Its Relationships with the ENSO Cycle
Jin-Yi Yu, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and W. T. Liu and C. R. Mechoso |
| 12:45 PM | 12.16 | Ocean-atmosphere-land feedbacks in an idealized monsoon
Chia Chou, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin, H. Su, and N. Zeng |
| 1:00 PM | 12.17 | Effects of a stochastic convective parameterization on tropical intraseasonal variability
Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin |
| 1:15 PM | 12.18 | A study of initializations for ENSO forecast models
Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Leetmaa and M. Cane |
| 1:30 PM | 12.19 | Interannual variations in satellite observed top-of-atmosphere longwave clear-sky radiation and consistency with diagnostics from global climate models
Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and W. D. Braswell and D. Fitzjarrald |