Session 1 |
| | Natural Climate Variability |
| | Organizer: Otis Brown, RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | North Atlantic Oscillation/Annular Mode: Two Paradigms—One Phenomenon
John M. Wallace, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 9:30 AM | 1.2 | 20th Century North American and European climate change: A forced response to tropical ocean warming
Martin P. Hoerling, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. Hurrell and A. Kumar |
| 9:45 AM | 1.3 | Trend-, ENSO-, and AO- related precipitation and surface temperature variability
Todd P. Mitchell, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Quadrelli and J. M. Wallace |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 1.4 | The Leading Patterns of Climate Variability and Winter Weather Extremes in the United States Part I: Temperature
R. W. Higgins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Washington, DC; and A. Leetmaa and V. E. Kousky |
| 10:45 AM | 1.5 | An assessment of the role of the ocean circulation in governing SST variability outside the tropical Pacific
Richard Seager, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and Y. Kushnir |
| 11:00 AM | 1.6 | Stochastic modeling of climate variability
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA/CDC and CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 11:15 AM | 1.7 | Ocean-atmosphere coupling and the regulation of the South Asian monsoon
Peter J. Webster, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 11:30 AM | 1.8 | A dynamical stabilizer in the climate system: a summary of progress to date and new results on the influence of the Earth's rotation
J. Ray Bates, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; and V. A. Alexeev |
| 11:45 AM | 1.9 | Is there an equatorial Indian Ocean SST Dipole, Independent of the El Nino–Southern Oscillation?
Neville Nicholls, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and W. Drosdowsky |