Session 8 |
| | Advancing Our Understanding of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: Part 1 (Parallel with Joint Session J1) |
| | Organizer: Henry F. Diaz, NOAA/ERL, Boulder, CO
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| 8:15 AM | 8.1 | The World Climate Programme
Michael J. Coughlan, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 8:30 AM | 8.2 | Astronomical Effects on the Winter Climate of the Midwest
John C. Freeman, Weather Research Center, Houston, TX; and J. F. Hasling |
| 8:45 AM | 8.3 | The Little Summer Drought (Veranico) During the Rainy Season in the Amazon Basin. General Characteristics and Variability
Jose A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoiera Paulista, SP, Brazil; and D. Mendes and L. Calvetti |
| 9:00 AM | 8.4 | Interdecadal and long-term variability of precipitation in the Brazilian Amazon basin
Jose A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and G. Sampaio, H. Camargo, C. Castro, and M. Sanches |
| 9:15 AM | 8.5 | Impact of the phenomenon El-Niņo on the regime of precipitation in the area of the medium amazon
David Mendes, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and J. Cohen |
| 9:30 AM | 8.6 | Atmospheric characteristics of the Sahel summer rains and links to global SSTs
Wassila M. Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and G. D. Bell |
| 9:45 AM | 8.7 | Variability of All India Monsoon Rainfall
R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 8.8 | Pacific-East Asian teleconnections: how does ENSO affect East Asian climate?
Bin Wang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Wu and X. Fu |
| 10:45 AM | 8.9 | The climatology and interannual variability of the North American Monsoon as revealed by the NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis
Christopher L. Castro, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. B. McKee and R. A. Pielke |
| 11:00 AM | 8.10 | Dominant factors influencing the seasonal predictability of United States precipitation and surface air temperature
Wayne Higgins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Leetmaa, Y. Xue, and A. Barnston |
| 11:15 AM | 8.11 | Interannual Variations of Summer Precipitation and Temperature in the Central United States
Qi Hu, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and J. W. Lee and C. J. Hays |
| 11:30 AM | 8.12 | The current decade-scale precipitation fluctuation in the Southern Great Plains
Jurgen D. Garbrecht, USDA/ARS, El Reno, Oklahoma; and F. E. Rossel |
| 11:45 AM | 8.13 | Impact of the Atlantic SST Anomalies on Russian Winter Snow Accumulation
Hengchun Ye, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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