Session 4 |
| | Air-sea interactions and the North Atlantic Oscillation |
| | Organizer: Richard Reynolds, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
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| 3:45 PM | 4.1 | The Coupling between the Thermohaline Circulation and North Atlantic Oscillation in Global Ocean Atmosphere Land System Model
Tian-jun Zhou, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China; and X. H. Zhang |
| 4:00 PM | 4.2 | Response of an Atmospheric GCM to Tropical Atlantic SST Dipole
Yuko Okumura, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie, A. Numaguti, and Y. Tanimoto |
|  | 4.3 | Comparing the physics of ocean-atmosphere coupling and estimates of extratropical predictability in models and reality
Mark J. Rodwell, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom |
| | 4.4 | Midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interaction in an idealized coupled model
Sergey V. Kravtsov, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and A. W. Robertson and M. Ghil |