Session 1 Natural Climate Variability

Monday, 15 January 2001: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Host: Climate Variability, the Oceans, and Societal Impacts
Organizer:
Otis Brown, RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL

Papers:
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
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

10:15 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

10:30 AM
1.6
Stochastic modeling of climate variability
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA/CDC and CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

10:45 AM
1.7
Ocean-atmosphere coupling and the regulation of the South Asian monsoon
Peter J. Webster, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

11:00 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

11:15 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

11:30 AM
1.3A
Coffee Break

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