Session 16 |
| Interannual Variability III: Observational Studies |
| Organizer: Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 10:30 AM | 16.1 | The interannual variability in the tropical Indian Ocean and its decadal modulation Bohua Huang, COLA, Calverton, MD; and J. Shukla |
| 10:45 AM | 16.2 | Ongoing drought in southwest Asia: The role of large-scale climate variability and the tropical oceans Mathew A. Barlow, International /Research Institute, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and H. Cullen and B. Lyon |
| 11:00 AM | 16.3 | Relationships between ENSO and the statistics of precipitation extremes in Brazil Wei Shi, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. W. Higgins and E. Yarosh |
| 11:15 AM | 16.4 | Observations of Atlantic Convergence Zones by QuikSCAT and TRMM Xiaosu Xie, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu |
| 11:30 AM | 16.5 | Sensitivity of the tropical atmospheric energy balance to ENSO-related SST changes: How well can we quantify hydrologic and radiative responses? Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and D. Fitzjarrald and B. J. Sohn |
| 11:45 AM | 16.6 | The Response of Tropical Precipitation to ENSO Wesley Berg, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Kummerow |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| | 16.7 | Relationships between climate variability and the statistics of winter precipitation extremes in the United States Yaping Zhou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. W. Higgins |
| | 16.8 | Impact of snow variability on the remote response to ENSO over North America Fanglin Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Kumar, W. Wang, H. M. H. Juang, and M. Kanamitsu |
| 1:29 PM | 16.9 | Interannual variability of snowfall events and snowfall-to-liquid water amounts in Southwest Missouri Anthony R. Lupo, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and D. Albert, R. Hearst, C. Allmeyer, and P. S. Market |
| 1:43 PM | 16.10 | Interdecadal variations in the Northern Hemisphere storm tracks Edmund K. M. Chang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL |
| | 16.11 | The climatology and interannual variability of satellite-observed precipitation in the Pan American region Scott Curtis, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler and G. J. Huffman |
| 1:57 PM | 16.12 | Global oceanic precipitation from 1948 to the present: A reconstruction of historical gauge observations Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Chen, J. E. Janowiak, P. A. Arkin, and T. M. Smith |
| 2:12 PM | 16.13 | Decadal variability in tropical Pacific climate James Carton, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. C. Mo |
| 2:27 PM | 16.14 | An investigation of the varying extratropical circulation response to ENSO warm events in the South Pacific S. A. Harangozo, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| 2:42 PM | 16.15 | Putting the 1997–98 El Nino in historical perspective N. K. Larkin, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison |
| 2:57 PM | | Coffee Break
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