Symposium Chairs: Kelvin Richards/Tim Li

8:45    Opening, Jay McCreary

9:00 Recirculation Gyre south of the Kuroshio Extension as measured by profiling floats, Peter Hacker

9:20 Eddy driven beta plume and the northern Tsuchiya Jet, Ryo Furue

9:40 Energetics of the global ocean: the role of layer-thickness form drag, Hidenori Aiki

10:30 Dynamics of quasi-Lagrangian tracer observed in the ocean mixed layer, Nikolai Maximenko

10:50 Vertical mixing in the Banda Sea and its effect on regional climate, Jim Potemra

11:10 Mechanism for Indian Ocean Warming, Yan Du

11:30 Intermediate models of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Jay McCreary

11:50 Mid-depth circulation in the western North Atlantic from profiling float data, Oleg Melnichenko

13:30 Reconstruction of the South China Sea throughflow from climatological data, Max Yaremchuk

13:50 Does the South China Sea Throughflow exist? Zuojun Yu

14:10 Mesoscale variability around the Hawaiian Islands, Yanli Jia

14:30 Modeling the circulation in Kaneohe Bay, Tommy Jensen

14:50 Application of Altimetry Data Assimilation on Mesoscale Eddies Simulation, Shan Gao

(Symposium group and individual photos ... Lori will take the pictures ... at the beginning of the afternoon coffee break on the first day …around 3:30 pm…down in the Japanese garden.)

15:40 Interdecadal change in major modes of A-AM variability, Bin Wang

16:00 Broad scale Australian monsoon index and its variability, Yoshiyuki Kajikawa

16:20 Global Monsoon Precipitation in the IPCC Twentieth-Century Climate Simulations, Hyung Jin Kim

16:40 Atmospheric Data Collections and Analyses, Yongsheng Zhang

17:00 Systematic errors in the Simulation of Mean Monsoon and its Variability in Coupled Models, Annamalai Hariharasubramania

17:20 The interannual variability of the summertime western North Pacific subtropical high, P.-H. Chung

Session 4 Atmospheric Processes

9:00 Rapid Filamentation Zone in a Numerically Simulated Tropical Cyclone, Yuqing Wang

9:20 Global mapping of high sea winds based on satellite observations, Takeaki Sampe

9:40 Response of the marine boundary layer and extratropical cyclones to the Gulf Stream and its extension, Justin Small

10:30 Cloud mapping over Hawaii: satellite observations and numerical simulations, Yang Yang

10:50 Sensitivity of MJO to the CAPE lapse time in the NCAR CAM3, Ping Liu

11:10 Seasonal variation of tropical cyclone rainfall associated with ENSO, Hisayuki Kubota

11:30 On the origin of tropical Atlantic SST biases in coupled general circulation models, Ingo Richter

11:50 Ocean/atmosphere interactions over the western equatorial Pacific and Maritime continent, Shin Kida

13:30 On the asymmetry of the Indian Ocean Dipole, C.-C. Hong

13:50 Fall persistence barrier of SST in the South China Sea associated with ENSO, Tim Li

14:10 Meridional control of ENSO variability, Axel Timmermann

14:30 Atlantic influence on Pacific climate through Central America: A process study with iROAM, Shang-Ping Xie

14:50 Coupling COAMPS and HYCOM with ESMF framework, Xin Zhang

15:40 SST-feedback extends the predictability of monsoon intraseasonal oscillation, Xiouhua Fu

16:00 Performance of climate prediction models on annual modes of precipitation and its relation with seasonal prediction, June-Yi Lee

16:20 Factors Controlling the Structure and Interannual Fluctuations of Tropical Stratospheric Upwelling and Consequences for Climate Variabilïty, Kevin Hamilton

16:40 Discussion and concluding remark