2002 Annual

Session 16: Interannual Variability III: Observational Studies

Thursday, 17 January 2002: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM
Organizer:  Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
Papers:
  10:30 AM
  10:45 AM
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
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
Observations of Atlantic Convergence Zones by QuikSCAT and TRMM
Xiaosu Xie, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu

  11:30 AM
  11:45 AM
The Response of Tropical Precipitation to ENSO
Wesley Berg, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Kummerow

Poster PDF (251.4 kB)
 
16.7
Relationships between climate variability and the statistics of winter precipitation extremes in the United States

 
16.8
Impact of snow variability on the remote response to ENSO over North America

  12:02 PM
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

Poster PDF (35.4 kB)
  12:16 PM
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

  12:31 PM
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

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
  12:46 PM
Decadal variability in tropical Pacific climate
James Carton, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. C. Mo

Poster PDF (14.1 kB)
  1:01 PM
  1:16 PM
Putting the 1997–98 El Nino in historical perspective
N. K. Larkin, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison

  1:31 PM
Lunch Break

  3:00 PM
Coffee Break