Session 3 |
| | Air-sea interaction and Pacific Decadal Variability |
| | Organizer: Bin Wang, Univ. of Hawaii, Honalulu, HI
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| 2:00 PM | 3.1 | Freshening of the Upper Pycnocline in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre Associated With Decadal Changes of Rainfall
Roger Lukas, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI |
| 2:15 PM | 3.2 | Propagation of North Pacific interdecadal subsurface temperature anomalies in an ocean GCM
Masami Nonaka, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Tokyo, Japan and Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie |
| 2:30 PM | 3.3 | Spatiotemporal Structure of decadal scale variability observed in the Global SST and lower-tropospheric circulation fields
Tomohiko Tomita, Frontier Research Program for Global Change, Tokyo, Japan and Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang, T. Yasunari, and H. Nakamura |
| 2:45 PM | 3.4 | Decadal variability and the anomalous 1990s ENSO events
Qin Zhang, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Ding and L. Yi |
| 3:00 PM | 3.5 | A "Heat Pump" Picture for the ENSO System
De-Zheng Sun, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, Colorado |
| 3:15 PM | 3.6 | Is the PDO a Single Mode of Climate Variability or the Result of Several? Implications for the Next Decade
Robert E. Livezey, CPC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and T. M. Smith |
| 3:30 PM | | Afternoon Coffee Break
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