Session 8 |
| | Interannual Variability II: Observational Studies |
| | Organizer: C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 2:00 PM | 8.1 | Bias corrections for historic sea surface temperatures based on marine air temperatures
Thomas M. Smith, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Reynolds |
| 2:15 PM | 8.2 | An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis 
Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Camp Springs, MD; and N. A. Rayner, T. M. Smith, D. C. Stokes, and W. Wang |
| 2:30 PM | 8.3 | Threshold sea surface temperature for initiation of convection
Hui Su, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin and J. E. Meyerson |
| 2:45 PM | 8.4 | Examining the effect of Concurrent SST anomalies on Caribbean Rainfall
Jacqueline M. Spence, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; and M. A. Taylor |
|  | 8.5 | The influence of Sahel rainfall on the summer circulation of the North Atlantic
James W. Hurrell, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 3:00 PM | 8.6 | The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity: Causes and implications
Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and S. B. Goldenberg, A. M. Mestas-Nunez, and W. M. Gray |
| 3:15 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:45 PM | 8.7 | Analyzing and Understanding Climate Variability in the Caribbean Islands
Tannecia S. Stephenson, University of the West Indies, Kingtson, Jamaica; and A. A. Chen |
| 4:00 PM | 8.8 | Modulation of Seasonal Precipitation in northern Venezuela and Antecedent Rinfall to the Floods and Landslides of December 1999
Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY |
| 4:15 PM | 8.9 | The Influence of the tropical Atlantic vs. the tropical Pacific on Caribbean Rainfall
Michael A. Taylor, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; and D. B. Enfield and A. A. Chen |
| | 8.10 | Significance of the Interannual Seesaw between the Aleutian and Icelandic Lows in the Interannual Variability over the Wintertime Northern Hemisphere
Meiji Honda, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan; and H. Nakamura |
| 4:29 PM | 8.11 | Wet Versus Dry Periods in the Midwest During January 1998 (El Nino) and January 1999 (La Nina)
Dayton G. Vincent, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and J. Giovannettone, A. Lese, J. Adolphson, S. Lashley, S. O'Conner, B. O'Hara, T. Reaugh, and G. Lamberty |
| 4:44 PM | 8.12 | Multi-scale variability of the river runoff system in East Asia and its long-term link to precipitation variability
Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and S. -. F. Sun, K. -. M. W. Lau, and J. Ji |