International Asian Monsoon Symposium (IAMS)

In conjunction with

The Seventh Workshop on East Asian Climate (EAC)

The Third Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling for Monsoon System (RCM)

17-20 February 2004

East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

 

 

Agenda for the first-day RCM Workshop (February 17, 2004, Tuesday)

08:00-08:30             Registration

08:30-08:45     Opening of Workshop and     report of the activities since the last RCM Workshop (Y. Wang)

08:45-09:45      Session 1:  RCM development (J. McGregor and T. Satomura)

09:45-10:00            Coffee Break

10:00-11:30            Session 2:  Challenges to RCM approach (H. von Storch and Y. Wang)

11:30-12:30            Session 3:  RCM intercomparison project (Y. Wang and J. McGregor)

12:30-13:30            Lunch

Sessions 4 and 5 are Joint EAC & RCM Sessions

13:30-14:45               Session 4:  Cloud-climate interaction (Wei-Chyung Wang and Yuqing Wang)

14:45-16:00            Session 5:  Land surface-atmosphere interaction (T. Yasunari)

16:00-16:15    Coffee Break

16:15-17:30            Session 6:  Research priorities (D.-K. Lee, R. Leung, and Y. Ding)

17:30-18:00            Closing of the first-day Workshop


 

Agenda for the first-day EAC Workshop (February 17, 2004, Tuesday)

 

08:00-08:30             Registration

08:30-08:45            Opening of Workshop

08:45-09:45      Session 1 Recent climate changes over East Asia: Observations and model simulations (Yihui Ding, Huang-Hsiung Hsu and Akio Kitoh)

09:45-10:00            Coffee Break

10:00-11:15            Session 2 Seasonal climate prediction (I. S. Kang)

11:15-12:30            Session 3ISO (Huang-Hsiung Hsu, Bin Wang)

12:30-13:30            Lunch

Sessions 4 and 5 are Joint EAC & RCM Sessions

13:30-14:45               Session 4:  Cloud-climate interaction (Wei-Chyung Wang and Yuqing Wang)

14:45-16:00            Session 5:  Land surface-atmosphere interaction (T. Yasunari)

16:00-16:15    Coffee Break

16:15-17:30            Session 6:  Ocean-atmosphere interaction (Bin Wang)

17:30-18:00            Closing of the first-day EAC Workshop


 

Joint IAMS, EAC, RCM Tentative Agenda Feb 18-20 (Overview)

 

February 18, 2004, Wednesday

8:00-8:45 am, Registration

8:45-9:00 am, Opening remarks

 

Session 1: Global Modeling and Predictability

9:00-10:30am

10:30-10:45am, Coffee Break

10:45am-12:30pm,

12:30-13:30pm, Lunch

 

Session 2: Regional Atmospheric modeling

13:30-15:30pm,

15:30-15:45pm, Coffee Break

 

Poster session

15:45-16:30pm

 

16:30pm  Buses leaves for Dinner Cruise.

 

February 19, 2004, Thursday

 

Session 3: Air-sea interaction and Indian Ocean dipole

8:30-10:30am

10:30-10:45am, Coffee Break

10:45am-12:30pm

12:30-13:30pm, Lunch

 

Session 4: Hydrological cycle and land surface processes

13:30-15:30pm

15:30-15:45pm, Coffee Break

 

Session 5: Seasonal cycle and weather

15:45-17:30pm,

17:30pm Adjourn

 

February 20, 2004, Friday

 

Session 6: Interannual to interdecadal variability

8:30-10:30am

10:30-10:45am, Coffee Break

10:45am-12:30pm

12:30-13:30pm, Lunch

 

Session 7: Intraseasonal variability

13:30am-15:30pm

15:30-15:45pm, Coffee Break

15:45-17:30

 

17:30-17:45pm, Closing Remarks


 

Joint IAMS, EAC, RCM Program (February 18-20)

 

Program

 

Session 1: Global Modeling and Predictability (February 18, Wednesday)

 

Oral 1   9:00-10:30am (Chairperson: Kenneth Sperber)

 

*Multi-model Seasonal Predictability of Monsoon precipitation (invited), In-Sik Kang, Climate Environment System Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742 Korea

 

*Predictability and Prediction of Monsoon Rainfall (Invited) J. Shukla, George Mason University, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

 

*Potential predictability and extended range prediction of active and break phases of Indian summer monsoon intraseasonal oscillations (invited). B N Goswami, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India

 

*Using pentad annual cycle as the foundation of monsoon forecasting (research) (invited), LinHo, Department of Atmospheric Sciences National Taiwan University

 

Asian/Pacific monsoon predictability: Sensitivity to annual cycle and ENSO variations, Cheng-Ta Chen and Jun-Hsien Wu, National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Earth Sciences,

 

Oral 2   10:45am-12:30pm (Chairperson: Rucong Yu)

 

*Changes of Monsoon and its Precipitation Characteristics by Global Warming (invited), Akio Kitoh, Meteorological Research Institute, 1-1 Nagamine, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0052 JAPAN

 

*Development of a cloud parameterization allowing aerosol-cloud-climate interaction in simulating the East Asian summer monsoon (invited), Wei-Chyung Wang1, Chao-Tzuen Cheng1, Wei Gong1, Jen-Ping Chen2, and I-Chun Tsai1,2, (1) Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Albany, New York. (2) Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei

An eddy-permitting OGCM and the relevant CGCM, Yongqiang YU, Hailong LIU, Xuehong Zhang, Tianjun ZHOU, Wei LI and Rucong YU, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

 

The Asian monsoon system as simulated by a set of AMIP-type experiments, Annalisa Cherchi and Antonio Navarra, Correspondent author Annalisa Cherchi, Via Donato Creti, 12 40128 Bologna Italy

 

Asian monsoon climate during middle Holocene climatic optimum (6000 Years B.P.) by the multi-model ensemble, Hyun-Taik Oh, Im Chul Shin, Won-Tae Kwon, Climate Research Laboratory, Meteorological Research Institute, 460-18 Shindaebang-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 156-720, South Korea, Ho-Jeong Shin, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-Dong, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, South Korea

 

An evolution of the Asian summer monsoon associated with the Mountain uplift -Study with the MRI coupled GCM, Manabu Abe, Graduate school of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Tetsuzo Yasunari, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Akio Kitoh, Meteorological Research Institute

 

Zonal Asymmetry of Monsoon Circulations in an Idealized GCM, Prive', Nikki, and R.A. Plumb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

 

Posters

 

Rainfall anomaly in Indonesia: Observation during 1980-2000 and simulation for 2010-2039, Haris Syahbuddin 1), Eleonora Runtunuwu, Tri Nandar Wihendar 2), Jean Francois Royer 3), and Manabu D Yamanaka4)

 

Variability of eastern Asia monsoon and Meiyu from ECHO-G, Xing Chen1, Jian Liu2, Hans von Storch3 and Eduardo Zorita3, 1)Department of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P.R.China, 2) Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS, Nanjing 210008, P.R.China, 3)Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, D-21502 Geesthacht, Germany

 

Climate scenarios in East Asia monsoon region due to human activities using Global coupled model, Ying Xu  Yihui Ding, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081

 

Possibilities, limitations, and improvement of dynamical prediction of Asian Summer monsoon precipitation, June-Yi Lee1, In-Sik Kang2, and William K.-M. Lau1, 1 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA, 2 Climate Environment System Research Center, Seoul National University, Korea,

 

Comparison of monsoon rainfall between simulated and reconstructed data in China, Jian Liu1, Xing Chen2, Hans von Storch3 and Eduardo Zorita3, 1.Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS, Nanjing 210008, P.R.China, 2. Department of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P.R.China, 3.  Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, D-21502 Geesthacht, Germany

 

Solutions to instabilities in the Polar Regions and bright future of global grid-point models, Bin Wang, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

 

Boundary forcings and intraseasonal variations of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR)-An analysis of their dependency for understanding challenges of predictability of ISMR, Jenamani Rajendra Kumar, Office of the Director General of Meteorology, Mausam Bhavan, India Meteorological Department, Lodhi Road, NewDelhi-110003

 

Detection and projection of East-Asian monsoon variations for the 20th and 21st centuries due to the human emissions as simulated by the CCSR/NIES2, Zong-ci Zhao 1,2,  Akimasa Sumi 2, Toru Nozawa 3, Chikako Harada 2, 1) National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, 2) Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), 3) National Institute of Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan)

 

Session 2: Regional Atmospheric Modeling (February 18, Wednesday)

 

Oral    13:30-15:30pm  (Chairperson: Yuqing Wang)

 

*Simulating the regional climatic effects of the atmospheric brown cloud (invited), L. Ruby Leung and Y. Qian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, V. Ramanathan and Chul Eddy Chung, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

 

*East Asian monsoon simulations using a variable-resolution GCM (invited), John L. McGregor, CSIRO Atmospheric Research Aspendale, Australia

 

*The utility of long-term reconstructions with regional climate models (invited), Hans von Storch*, Frauke Feser*, Ralf Weisse*, Lars Bärring**, *Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany, **Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Lund University, Sweden

 

*Regional numerical prediction model and its simulations on the heavy rainfalls along the Yangtse River (invited), Rucong Yu, Youping Xu, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100029

 

*Improvement of SNURCM land surface parameterization for East Asian summer monsoon simulation (invited), Dong-Kyou Lee and Dong-Hyun Cha, Atmospheric Sciences Program, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, KOREA

 
Controlling the large scales of regional climate reconstructions, Frauke Feser, Hans von Storch, and Ralf Weisse, Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany

 

An attempt toward a precise regional non-hydrostatic climate model, Takehiko SATOMURA*, Sayaka Akiba*+, *Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, +Present Affiliation: Suntory Ltd.

 

Keynote speakers at one-day RCM issue-driven discussion (Feb 17 Tuesday)

 

Intercomparison of RCM simulated cloud characteristics over East Asia, W.-C. Wang1, W. Gong1, Y.-Q. Wang2, W.-S. Kau3, H.-H. Hsu3, P.-L. Lin4, and C.-H. Shiao5, (1) Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Albany, New York; (2) International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; (3) Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; (4) Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan; (5) Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan

 

A study of the cloud-radiation processes in multi-yr simulations of the East Asian climate using the regional climate model RegCM-NCC, Ding Yihui and Liu Yan, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081

 

An evaluation of the East Asian summer monsoon simulation by the Purdue Regional Model, Yi-Chiang Yu 1,2, Huang-Hsiung Hsu 1, Wen-Shung Kau 1,C-H Tsou 2, Wu-Ron Hsu 1, and Wen-Yih Sun 3, 1 Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2 Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 Dept of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

 

On improved simulation of sub-daily variation of clouds and precipitation and partitioning between stratiform and convective precipitation by climate models, Yuqing Wang, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii.

 
Posters

 

The Interannual Variations of the East Asian Monsoon Simulated by a Regional Climate Model, Ren-Yow Tzeng, Pay-Liam Lin, and J.-L. Mar. Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan

 

Numerical simulation of boundary layer structure and cross-equatorial flow in the eastern Pacific, Justin Small, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii

 

A Ten-year climatology of summer monsoon over South China from a regional climate model, Yiming Liu and Johnny C L Chan, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Physics & Material Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

 

High resolution simulations of the island induced circulations for the Island of Hawaii during HaRP, Yang Yang and Yi-Leng Chen, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

 

Validations of the NCEP MSM coupled with an advanced LSM over the Hawaiian Islands, Yongxin Zhang1, Y.-L. Chen1, S.-Y. Hong2, K. Kodama3, and H.-M. H. Juang4

 

A macro-scale land surface hydrological model with 50 × 50 km2 resolution for river basins in China, Zhenghui Xie, Qian Liu, Fengge Su, ICCES/LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

High-resolution atmospheric model simulation of marine boundary layer clouds, Yuqing Wang, Shang-Ping Xi, and Haiming Xu, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii.
 

Effects of the Andes on Eastern Pacific Climate: A Regional Atmospheric Model Study, Haiming Xu, Yuqing Wang, and Shang-Ping Xie, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

 
Simulation of Climate in Turkey by a Regional Climate Model nested with MRI GCM, Fujio KIMURA, Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
 
Simulated climatic snow and rainfall distribution over Japan Island during winter monsoon season using a cloud resolved regional climate model. Takao Yoshikane, Fujio Kimura, Kumiko Takata,, Katsunori Tanaka, Xieyao Ma, Ken Motoya, Sung-Dea kang
 

Regional simulations of seasonal rain-belt march over East Asia, Shi Xueli Ding Yihui, National Climate Center, Beijing, 100081, China

 

Simulations of Palaeo-climates over Eastern Asia and the Tibetan Plateau at 6 ka and 21 ka B.P. by a Regional Climate Model, Zheng Yiqun, Yu Ge, Wang Sumin, Xue Bin, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China

 

Session 3: Air-Sea Interaction and Indian Ocean Dipole (February 19, Thursday)

Oral 1   8:30-10:30am (Chairperson: Jong-Ghap Jhun)

 

*Indian Ocean Dipole (invited), Swadhin Behera and Toshio Yamagata, Also at Department of Earth & Planetary Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan

 

*Indian summer monsoon - global ocean interactions (invited), Ben Kirtman - George Mason University, Renguang Wu - Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

 

Interactive feedback between the Indian Ocean and ENSO, Jong-Seong Kug and In-Sik Kang, Climate Environment System Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

 

Subsurface influence on SST in the tropical Indian Ocean: Structure and interannual variability, Suryachandra A. Rao, Swadhin K. Behera and Toshio Yamagata1, Institute for Global Change Research, Frontier Research System for Global Change, 3173-25 Showamachi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001 Japan. 1also at Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Austral climate anomalies associated with Indian Ocean Dipole mode events, Saji N. Hameed, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, USA.

 

Simulation of the Indian Ocean Dipole and its teleconnection to Asian summer monsoon and African short rains by SINTEX-F CGCM, Swadhin Behera1, Jing Jia Luo1, Sebastien Masson1, Pascale Delecluse4, 5, Silvio Gualdi3, Antonio Navarra3 and Toshio Yamagata1,2, 1Frontier Research System for Global Change, YES, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001 Japan, 2Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan, 3Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), v. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, 4Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (LODYC), Paris, France, 5Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE ) – Orme, CEDEX, France.

 

Structure and evolution of southerly surges over the eastern Indian Ocean during Austral winter, Yoshiki Fukutomi, Frontier Research System for Global Change, JAMSTEC Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, Tetsuzo Yasunari, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan

 

Convective activity in the eastern Indian Ocean observed during R/V Mirai cruises MR02--K04 and MP03-K03, Shuichi Mori, Hamada Jun-Ichi, Manabu D. Yamanaka*, Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change (FORSGC)/JAMSTEC, *additional affiliation: Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University.

 

The Characteristics of Indian Ocean Dipole Mode: Preliminary Study of the Monsoon Variability in the Western Part of Indonesian Region Especially on the West Sumatra, Eddy Hermawan, The Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Jl. Dr. Junjunan 133, Bandung 40173, West Java, Indonesia

 

Oral 2  10:45am-12:30pm (Chairperson: R. H. Kripalani)

 

*The North Pacific as a regulator of  summertime climate over North American and the Asian Monsoon (Invited), William K. M. Lau, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA/GSFC,  and H. Wang, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, UMBC

 

*Simulation of the establishment and maintenance of the East Asian monsoon anomaly during ENSO episodes (invited), Ngar-Cheung Lau, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton University, P.O. Box 308 Princeton, NJ 08542, USA,

 

*A break in the Indo-Pacific warm pool over the South China Sea in boreal winter: Seasonal development and interannual variability (invited), Qinyu Liu, Xia Jiang, Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Laboratory, Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, Shang-Ping Xie, International Pacific Research Center and Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA, W. Timothy Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA.

 

Air-sea interaction in monsoonal Asian seas, Shang-Ping Xie, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822

 

Interannual signals in the northwestern Pacific and its marginal seas: their evolution, air-sea coupling process and relationship with climate anomaly in winter over China, WANG Dongxiao1, QIN Huiling1,2, LIU Yun1, JIAN Maoqiu1, YUAN Zhuojian1, 1. Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Environmental Dynamics, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China. 2. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, China

 

Seasonal characteristics of the atmosphere-ocean interaction over the western North Pacific region, Kyung Jin* and In-Sik Kang, Climate Environment System Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea

 

Posters

 

A study on variations of deep-rain properties with the sea surface temperature over the tropics utilizing TRMM PR2a25 and TMI data, Yukari N. Takayabu, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 154-8904, Japan

 

East-west SST contrast over the equatorial oceans and the western North Pacific summer monsoon, Toru Terao, Faculty of Informatics, Osaka Gakuin University, Japan, Takuji Kubota, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan

 
Tropical Pacific SST Anomalies and Indian Monsoon: A CGCM Study, K. Rajendran and A. Kitoh Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, JAPAN
 

Indian Ocean Dipole: Influence on Boreal summer climate of Indo Australian sector, Karumuri Ashok1, Zhaoyong Guan1,2, N. H. Saji3, and Toshio Yamagata1,4, 1 Frontier Research System for Global Change, 3173-25, Showamachi, Kanazawa-Ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, 236-0001, Japan, 2 Also at Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing 210044, China, 3 IPRC, Hawaii, 4 Also at Department of Earth & Planetary Physics, Graduate School of Science,, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan

 

The relationship between the interannual variation of the Indian Ocean SST induced by the Indian monsoon and ENSO, Motoki Nagura, Department of Geophysics, Kyoto University, Masanori Konda, Department of Geophysics, Kyoto University

 

Monsoon variability over South and East Asia vis-à-vis Indian Ocean dipole mode, R.H. Kripalani, S.S. Sabade, Ashwini Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune 411008, India, and Jai-Ho Oh, Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea

 

On the mechanism of the seasonal variability of SST in the tropical Indian Ocean, Hu Ruijin, Liu Qinyu, MENG Xiangfeng, Physical Oceanography Laboratory & Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Laboratory, Ocean University of China, 266003, Qingdao, China

 

Changes in the vertical profiles of temperature in the top 200 meters of Southeast Arabian Sea  in the Cochin to Lakshadweep sector during May 2002 to May 2003, C.K.Rajan, Bindu.G, Johnson Zacharia, Sakkeer Hussain, V.V.Gopalakrishna & P.V.Joseph, Department of Atmospheirc Sciences, Cochin  University of Science and Technology, Fine Arts Avenue, Cochin –682 016.

 

Impact of temperature inversions on SST evolution in the South-Eastern Arabian Sea during the pre-summer monsoon season, F. Durand(1), S. R. Shetye(1), J. Vialard(1,2), D. Shankar(1), S. S. C. Shenoi(1), C. Ethe(2), G. Madec(2), (1) Physical Oceanography Division, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa 403004, India. (2) Laboratoire d’Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France

 

The Air-sea heat exchange at Xisha areas during the onset of southwest monsoon in 2000, Yan Jun-yue1, Yao Hua-dong1, Li Jiang-long1, Tang Zhiyi1, Sha Wen-yu2, Jiang Guo-rong2, Li Xun-qiang2, Xiao Yi-guo2, (1.National Climate Center, Beijing 100081,China, 2.PLA University of Science Technology, Nanjing 211101,China)

 
Session 4: Hydrological Cycle and Land Surface Processes (February 19, Thursday)

 

Oral  13:30-15:30pm (Chairperson: Brian Mapes)

 

*Role of vegetation and soil on Asian monsoon. Part I. Revisit to the monsoon as a LAND-ocean contrast (invited), T. Yasunari*#, K. Saito*, and K. Takata*, * Frontier Research System for Global Change, # Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan

 

*Thermal effects of the Tibetan Plateau on the evolution of the Asian summer monsoon (invited), Michio Yanai, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

 

Role of vegetation and soil on Asian monsoon. Part II. Sensitivity of climate and water cycle over the Eurasian continent, K. Saito*, T. Yasunari*#, and K. Takata*, * Frontier Research System for Global Change, # Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan

 

Land-atmosphere disequilibrium with respect to annual solar-SST forcings, Brian Mapes, CIRES/NOAA climate diagnostics center (CDC), Ping Liu, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

 

Development of a simplified numerical model of frozen soil for regional climate study, Sun, Shufen and Zhang, X., LASG, Institute of Atmospheric physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing.

 

Numerical Simulation of the impact of vegetation change on variability of East Asian summer monsoon, Weiping Li, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, P. R. China, Yongkang Xue, Department of Geography and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

 

Role of cloud radiative forcing in East Asian Summer Monsoon, W.-S. Kau1, H.-H. Hsu1, W.-C. Wang2 and W. Gong2 , (1) Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; (2) Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Albany, New York.

 

Spatial and temporal variability in the relationship between the Indian summer monsoon and Tibetan snow cover, Hongxu Zhao and G.W.K. Moore, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

 

Effects of vegetation over the Tibetan Plateau on summer precipitation, Lan Sun, (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China

 

Posters

 

Validating a Biosphere Model (SSiB) for the Huaihe River Basin using GEWEX/GAME/HUBEX data, Lan Sun, (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081

 

Effect of surface fluxes over Indochina on the summer monsoon over south China, K. C. Chow and Johnny C. L. Chan, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Physics & Material Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, China.

 

Energy Budgets Over Huaihe River Basin During HUBEX Field Observation Periods In 1998 and 1999, HU Guoquan and DING Yihui, National Climate Center, CMA, Beijing 100081, China

 

The synoptic study on establishment of the Southwest monsoon and changes of rain belt over the South China Sea in 2002, YAN Jun-yue, TANG Zhiyi, Zhang Xiu-zhi, Liu Yan-ju, LI Jiang-long, National Climate Center, Beijing 100081, China

 

Dynamics of the winter time wet spells over the Arabian region, Milind Mujumdar1,2, Swadhin Behera3, Arun Chakraborty1,  Takafumi Miyasaka1, Tomoki Tozuka1 , Ryohji Ohba4, Kinji Baba4 and Toshio Yamagata1,3, 1Global Hydrological Project Laboratory, Nezu, Tokyo and Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2 Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, 3 Frontier Research System for Global Change, Tokyo, Japan, 4Mitsubishi Heavy Industry’s Research and Development Center, Tokyo, Japan

 

Atmospheric moisture transport associated with anomalous summer rainfall over China for 1951-1999, Tianjun ZHOU, Rucong YU, State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modelling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mail Box 9804, Beijing 100029, China

 

The study on the relations between moisture flux in East Asian and the South China Sea summer monsoon, Zhang Xiuzhi, National Climate Center, Beijing 100081,China

 

Diagnosis of moisture transport to the arid and semi-arid regions of Saudi Arabia, Arun Chakraborty1, 2, Kinji Baba4, Swadhin K. Behera3, Y. Masumoto2, 3, T. Miyasaka2, Kenji Muta6, Milind Mujumdar1, 2, R. Obha5, Tomoki Tozuka2, and Toshio Yamagata2, 3

1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., 1-23-9-907, Nezu, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo – 113 0031, Japan, 2Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 3IGCR/Frontier Research System for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan, 4Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., 2-1-1 Shinhama Arai-cho, Takasago Hyogo – 676 8686, Japan, 5Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., 5-717-1, Fukahori-Machi, Nagasaki- 851 0392, Japan, 6Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., 1-8-1 Sachiura, Kanazawa-Ku, Yokohama- 236 8515, Japan,

 

An estimation of downward surface radiation over, Jianqing XU* (FRSGC), Tadahiro HAYASAKA, and Kazuaki KAWAMOTO (RIHN), *Frontier Research System for Global Change 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama City Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan

 

Session 5: Seasonal Cycle/Weather (February 19, Thursday)

Oral    15:45-17:30pm (Chairperson: Richard Johnson)

 

*Life cycle and onset of the East-Asian summer monsoon (invited), Tsing-Chang (Mike) Chen, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

 

*Annual cycle of Southeast Asia - Maritime continent rainfall and the asymmetric monsoon transition (invited), C.-P. Chang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, Zhuo Wang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, John McBride, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia, Ching-Hwang Liu, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Climate effects of the deep continental stratus clouds generated by Tibetan Plateau, Rucong Yu1, Bin Wang2,1 and Tianjun Zhou1, 1. LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, 2. Department of Meteorology and IPRC, University of Hawaii, 2525 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822

 

Organization and latent heating profiles of monsoon convection, Richard H. Johnson, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523

 

Diurnal variation of the convective activity over Bangladesh in the summer monsoon season and its relation with the nocturnal jet, Toru Terao, Faculty of Informatics, Osaka Gakuin University, Japan, Taiichi Hayashi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, Md. Nazrul Islam, Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, Jun Matsumoto, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

 

A unified definition of the summer monsoon onset over the South China Sea and East Asia, Wang, B.1, LinHo2, Y. Zhang3, M.-M. Lu4, 1) Department of Meteorology and International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, 2) Department of Atmospheric Science, National Taiwan Universit, 3) International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, 4) Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan.

 

Seasonal variation of diurnal cycle of local circulation observed at Serpong, West Jawa, Indonesia, Ryuzo Araki(1), Manabu D. Yamanaka(1,5), Fumie Murata(2), Hiroyuki Hashiguchi(3), Tien Sribimawati(4), Mahally Kudsy(4), and, Findy Renggono(4), (1) Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan, (2) Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, (3) Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, (4) Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), Jakarta, Indonesia, (5) Frontier Observation Research System for Global Change, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan

 

Interaction between Two Propagating Rossby Waves and its Role in the Boreal Summer of 1998, Yafei Wang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, 100081, Beijing, China, Koji Yamazaki, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan, and Yasushi Fujiyoshi, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

 

Posters

 

Observational evidence for westward propagation of temperature inversions in the southeastern Arabian Sea, D. Shankar, V. V. Gopalakrishna, S. S. C. Shenoi, S. R. Shetye, C. K. Rajan, J. Zacharias, N. Araligidad, G. S. Michael, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India (authors 1-4, 7-8), School of Marine Sciences, CUSAT, Kochi, India (authors 5-6)

 

An observational and numerical study of heavy rainfall event in Shanghai on 05 August 2001, Gang  Fu1,  Yihong Duan2,   Xudong Liang2,  Xindong Peng3, 1. Dept. of Marine Meteorology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, 2. Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China, 3. Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China

 

Characteristics, evolution and mechanisms of the Asian summer monsoon onset over the Southeast Asia, Zuqiang Zhang1*, Johnny C. L. Chan2  and  Yihui Ding1, 1National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, 2Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

 

An alternative index for the onset of summer monsoon and circulation patterns to heating location, Jilin Sun, Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Lab., Ocean University of Qingdao, 266003, P.R. China,

Dongxiao Wang, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301,P. R. China

 

 

The dynamics of climatological monsoon break (CMB) over Southeast Asia in boreal summer, Hiroshi Takahashi and Tetsuzo Yasunari, Nagoya University, Japan

 

Developing phase of the South Pacific convergence zone and the cross-equatorial flow in the western tropical Pacific, Zhang Suping, Liu Qinyu, Physical Oceanography Lab. & Ocean –Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Lab., Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

 

Relationship between the intensity of South China Sea summer monsoon and the precipitation in raining seasons in China, WU Shang-sen,  LIANG Jian-yin,  LI Chun-hui, (Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, CMA, Guangzhou 510080, China)

 

A case study of an appearance of dry air at Kototabang, West Sumatera, Indonesia, Fumie Murata(1), Manabu D. Yamanaka(2,3), S.-Y. Ogino(2), H. Hashiguchi(4), T. Sribimawati(5), M. Kudsy(5), (1) Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University , (2) Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, (3) Frontier Observation Research System for Global Change, (4) Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University, (5) Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT)

 

Observational study about diurnal cycle of cloud system migration over Sumatera Island in Indonesian maritime continent, Namiko Sakurai (1), Fumie MURATA(2), Manabu D. YAMANAKA(3), Hiroyuki HASHIGUCHI(4), Shuichi MORI(3), Jun-Ichi HAMADA(3),Yudi Iman Tauhid(3), Tien Sribimawati(5), Budi Suhardi(6), (1) Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, (2) Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University (3) Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change, (4) Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University, (5) Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), (6) Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysical Agency (BMG)

 

Memorial characteristics of East-Asian monsoon, Hong-xing Cao*, Hui-zhong He, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, 46 Zhongguancun Nandajie, 100081, Beijing, China, Richard Blender, Meteorologisches Institut, Universitaet Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany.

 

Impact of monsoon extremes on the socio economic conditions of Peninsular India, K. Shadananan Nair, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Vallayil House, North Gate, Vaikom-686 141, Kottayam Dt., Kerala, India

 

Session 6: Interannual to Interdecadal Variability (February 20, Friday)

 

Oral 1   8:30-10:30 am (Chairperson: Johnny Chan)

 

*On droughts of the Indian monsoon (invited), Sulochana Gadgil, P.N. Vinayachandron, and P.A. Francis, Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, INDIA,

 

*Impacts of western Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Eurasian land surface on Asian monsoon and their difference from ENSO's direct influence (invited), Song Yang, CPC, NCEP

 

The oscillation between East Asian monsoon system and ENSO system with the quasi-two years time scale, Ni Yunqi, Yin Yonghong, Shi Li, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, 100081

 

Biennial and Lower-Frequency Variability Observed in the Early Summer Climate in the Western North Pacific, Tomohiko Tomita+, Takao Yoshikane, and Tetsuzo Yasunari, +Corresponding author: Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, JAPAN

Seasonal Evolving TBO Patterns and Mechanisms, Tim Li, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii.
 
Sea surface temperature forcing of the monsoon-ENSO system, P. Terray, S. Dominiak, P. Delecluse, (1) Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Paris, France

 

The precipitation patterns over Australia and East Asia during Australian summer monsoon season, Mong-Ming Lu*, Ru-Jun May and Chih-wen Hung, Research and Development Center, Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan

 

Characteristics of East-Asian summer climate revealed by newly defined indices, Jong-Ghap Jhun* and Eun-Jeong Lee, (* School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Climate and Environmental System Research Center, Seoul National University)

 

NAO impact on the East Asia monsoon and ENSO, A.Polonsky, D.Basharin, A.Yurovsky, Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol the Crimea

 

Oral 2 10:45am -12:30pm (Chairperson: Tim Li)

 

*The Indian Ocean, the TBO, and the Asian-Australian monsoon, Gerald Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA.

 

*What is the cause for the inter-decadal variation of the Asian monsoon system (invited), Ding Yihui, Sun Ying, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China

 

Variability of the summer monsoon over South China and the South China Sea: from interdecadal to intraseasonal, Johnny C. L. Chan, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Physics & Material Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

 

Summertime ENSO teleconnections over the Eurasia: The possible cause of East Asia cool summer in developing El Nino summer, Eun-Jeong Cha* and Masahide Kimoto, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 

Interdecadal change in the Asian-Australian monsoon, Chih-wen Hung and Mong-Ming Lu, Research and Development Center, Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Detection and dynamics of the principal mode of Asian summer monsoon variability, Natsuko Yasutomi and Masahide Kimoto, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8904, JAPAN

 

 

 

Posters

 

Interaction between Circumglobal Teleconnection and Asian Monsoon during the Northern Summer, Q. -H. Ding and Bin Wang, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

 

Decadal variability of tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific, Hsin Hsing Chia*, Pao-Shin Chu@, and Chester F. Ropelewski#, *Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan, @Department of Meteorology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. #IRI for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, U. S. A.

 

Interdecadal variations of various intraseasonal features of Indian summer monsoon, their relationship, possible causes and climatic effects, Jenamani Rajendra Kumar, Office of the Director General of Meteorology, Mausam Bhavan, India Meteorological Department, Lodi Road, NewDelhi-110003, India

 

The interdecadal abrupt change of African-Asian summer monsoon in 1960’s, Song Yan, and Ji  Jinjun, Chinese Meteorological Training Center, Beijing 10081, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

 

Interannual variability of the Mascarene high and Australian high and their influences on the East Asian summer monsoon, Feng  XUE , LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

 

The relationship between East-Asian summer monsoon/western North Pacific subtropical high and the tropical SST, Eun-Jeong Lee* and Jong-Ghap Jhun, *Climate and Environmental System Research Center, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea

 

A diagnostic study of Asian summer monsoon and its variability, P.V.S. Raju,  U.C. Mohanty* and R. Bhatla, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-16, India

 

Impact of El Nino and Siberian high on the temperature of Heilongjiang in the past 120 years, Yonggang Sun, Nanping Xu  Huasheng Pan and Guihua Zhang, (Meteorological Center of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150030), China

 

The interannual and interdecadal variability of summer climate in Taiwan, Jau-Ming Chen, Research and Development Center, Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan

 

Inter-decadal variability of the South China Sea summer monsoon, Song Yafang, Sun Ying, and Ding Yihui, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, No.46 Zhongguancun Nan Da Jie,Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.

 

Decadal change in Tibetan Plateau snow depth in spring. Yongsheng Zhang, T. Li, and B. Wang, IPRC, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA.

 

Seasonal changes and their decadal variability over East Asia (invited), Jun Matsumoto, Hiroaki Takahara and Tomoshige Inoue, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 

Response of the Asian Summer Monsoon to changes in ENSO properties,
H. Annamalai and P. Liu, IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii, USA

 

Session 7: Intraseasonal Oscillation (February 20, Friday)

 

Oral 1: 13:30-15:30pm (Chairperson: George Kiladis)

 

*Intraseasonal oscillation of Asian summer monsoon (invited), Joseph P.V., Sooraj K.P. and Sijikumar S., Department of Atmospheric Science, Cochin University of Science and echnology, Fine Arts Avenue, Kochi – 682016, INDIA

 

*Intraseasonal variability in the East Asian and Western North Pacific monsoon region (invited), Huang-Hsiung Hsu, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

 

The role of intraseasonal wave activity in the onset and active-break phases of the Indian monsoon, George N. Kiladis*, Maria K. Flatau**, and Piotr J. Flatau**, *Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado, USA, ** Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, California, USA.

 

Intra-seasonal variability of the summer monsoon over North Indian Ocean as revealed by the BOMEX and ARMEX field programs, P. Sanjeeva Rao and D.R. Sikka*, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi-110 016, * 40 Mausam Vihar, New Delhi-110 051, India

 

Westward propagating mechanisms of sub-monthly scale disturbances during summer Asian monsoon season, Satoru Yokoi, Division of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake cho, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.

 

Indian monsoon variability during 2002 and 2003: Role of intra-seasonal oscillations, R.H. Kripalani, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune 411008, India.

 

Different propagation characteristics of the MJO during boreal summer and winter: Impact of the monsoon circulation on the northward movement of convection associated with the MJO, Kazuyoshi Kikuchi and Yukari N. Takayabu, University of Tokyo, Japan

 

A study of the simulation of the intraseasonal variability on east Asian summer monsoon using different horizontal resolution AGCMs, Kyung-Ja Ha and Ki-Young Kim, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea

 

Interactions among seasonal, intraseasonal and diurnal variations over the Indonesian maritime continent: An observational strategy, Manabu D. Yamanaka, Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change and Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Japan

 

Oral 2  15:45-17:30pm (Chairperson: Huang-Hsiung Hsu)

 

*Intraseasonal variability of the Asian summer monsoon in a modestly high resolution general circulation model (invited). Masahide Kimoto, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8904 JAPAN

 

*Sensitivity of MJO Predictability and Prediction to GCM and Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling (invited), Duane E. Waliser and Stefan Liess, Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, Endeavour Hall #205, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA

 

An experimental MJO prediction program, Klaus Weickmann, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Duane Waliser, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

 

Different ISO solutions exist in an atmosphere-ocean coupled model and an atmosphere-only model, Xiouhua Fu and Bin Wang, IPRC, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

 

Asian summer monsoon intraseasonal variability in general circulation models, Kenneth R. Sperber1,H. Annamalai2, 1) Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA, 2) International Pacific Research Center/SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.

 

Meridional propagation of the MJO/ISO and prediction of off-equatorial monsoon variability, Man Li C. Wu, S. Schubert, M. Suarez, P. Pegion, J. Bacmeister, and D. Waliser*, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, State University of New York, USA

 

Structures and Mechanisms of Northward-Propagating ISO in Boreal Summer, Jiang, Xianan, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

 

Posters

 

The interannual variability of the intraseasonal variation over the South China Sea, Yoshiyuki KAJIKAWA and Tetsuzo YASUNARI, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center (HyARC), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya City, 464-8601, Japan

Interannual Variations of the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation in the Asian-Pacific Region, Haiyan Teng and Bin Wang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu, USA.

 

Dynamics and vertical structure of boreal summer intraseasonal variability, H. Annamalai(1) and K.R. Sperber(2), (1) IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii, (2) PCMDI, LLNL, Livermore, CA, USA

 

Coherent life cycle of intraseasonal convection and extratropical circulation during El Nino and La Nina years, Ja-Yeon Moon and *Kyung-Ja Ha, Climate Research Laboratory, Meteorological Research Institute, Korea Meteorological Administration, 460-18, Shindaebang-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 156-720, Republic of Korea, *Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Pusan National University, USA

 

Diurnal and intraseasonal rainfall variations in a mountainous region of Sumatera, Indonesia, HAMADA Jun-Ichi (1), Shuichi Mori (1), Yudi Iman Tauhid (2), Tien Sribimawati (2) and Manabu D. Yamanaka (1, 3), 1: Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change, 2: Indonesian Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, 3: Graduate School for Science and Technology, Kobe University, Japan

 

Intraseasonal changes of temperature inversions over Indochina peninsula related to winter monsoonal cold surge, Masato I. NODZU, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe university, 1-1, Rokkodai-chou, Nada, Kobe 657 8501, JAPAN

 

Submonthly (7-20 day) convective variability over and around the Tibetan Plateau, Hatsuki Fujinami and Tetsuzo Yasunari, Corresponding author: Hatsuki FUJINAMI, Dr. Research associate of CREST, JST HyARC, Nagoya University, 464-8601, JAPAN

 

Contrast of the 30-60 day intraseasonal oscillation and its impact on the East Asian summer monsoon during 1997/98 ENSO cycle, Congwen Zhu1,3, Tetsuo Nakazawa2, Jianping Li3, and Longxun Chen1, 1Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, 2Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, 3LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

 

Mechanism of the Northward Propagating Intraseasonal Oscillation: Insights from a Zonally Symmetric Model, H-K. L. Drbohlav and Bin Wang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, Honolulu, USA

 

Multi-model Ensemble Forecast of Intraseasonal Oscillation in Asian Monsoon Region, Chih-Hua Tsou1, C. K. Lee1, Wen-Shung Kau2, 1Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan