IPRC 2005 Annual Symposium

 

Asia Room, Imin Conference Center, East-West Center

May 4 – 6, 2005

 

 

Wednesday May 4

 

PART 1 - Ocean circulation and modeling

 

9:00 Andrei Natarov: Interaction of the Equatorial Undercurrent with a Yanai wave

 

9:20 Dailin Wang: Sensitivity of equatorial circulation to parameterization of mixing

 

9:40 Jay McCreary: Influence of the Indonesian Throughflow on circulations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

 

10:00 Ryo Furue: Dynamics of the Southern Tsuchiya Jet

 

 

10.20  10-min COFFEE BREAK

 

 

10:30 Kelvin Richards: The fine-scale nature of the mean flow of the ocean

 

10:50 Nikolai Maximenko: Alternating zonal jets observed in the upper ocean

 

11:10 Max Yaremchuk: Retrieving the seasonal cycle of river runoff into the Bay of Bengal from Levitus climatology

 

 

11.30  90-min LUNCH BREAK

 

 

1:00 Tangdong Qu: Upwelling and its influence on the sea surface temperature off Java and Sumatra. Part I: General characteristics of circulation and mixed-layer dynamics

 

1:20 Yan Du: Upwelling and its influence on the sea surface temperature off Java and Sumatra. Part II: Mixed-layer heat budget

 

1:40 Tommy Jensen: Bifurcation of the Pacific North Equatorial Current

 

2:00 Hiroshi Yoshinari: Deep ocean circulation estimated from trajectories of Argo floats.

 

 

2:20  10-min COFFEE BREAK

 

PART 2 - Atmospheric dynamics and modeling:

 

2:30 Jiayi Peng: The growth and evolution of asymmetric perturbations in a hurricane-like vortex

 

2:50 Xin Zhang: Hurricane initialization and satellite data assimilation

 

3:10 Kevin Hamilton: Some Results from High-Resolution AGCMs

 

3:30 Yuqing Wang: Effect of convective entrainment/detrainment on simulation of tropical precipitation: A regional-model sensitivity study

 

 

 

Thursday, May 5

 

PART 3 - Climate Variability

 

9:20  Annamalei: Dynamical link between Southwest Indian Ocean SST and PNA pattern

 

9:40 Xiouhua Fu: Impact of atmosphere-ocean interaction on the predictability of monsoon intraseasonal oscillations

 

10:00 Zuojun Yu: Generation mechanism for the intraseasonal variability in the Indo-Australian basin

 

 

10:20  30-min COFFEE BREAK

 

 

10:50 Francis Tam: Western Pacific synoptic-scale activity and its interannual variability

 

11:10 Kazuyoshi Kikuchi: Intraseasonal air-sea relationship revealed by satellite data

 

11:30 Richard Justin Oxford Small: Regional aspects of the midsummer drought in the Americas

 

 

11:50  70-min LUNCH BREAK

 

 

1:00 Shang Ping Xie: IPRC regional ocean-atmosphere model (iROAM) simulation of eastern Pacific climate

 

1:20 Simon deSzoeke: Atmosphere-ocean interaction in the eastern tropical Pacific according to the iROAM

 

1:40 Niklas Schneider: North Pacific Decadal Variability in a Coupled Model

 

2:00 Soon-Il An: Pacific decadal variability induced by ENSO

 

2:20 Tim Li: A monsoon – warm-ocean interaction scenario for the TBO

 


 

PART 4 - Climate Change

 

 

2:40 Saji Hameed: Indian Ocean variability in IPCC Climate of the 20th Century experiment (20C3M)

 

3:00  10-min COFFEE BREAK

 

3:10 Markus Stowasser: Tropical storms in the western North Pacific in a quadruple CO2 Scenario

 

3:30 Axel Timmermann: Global Response to a shutdown of the THC

 

3:50 Oliver Timm: Paleoclimate Simulations from 21,000 Years Before Present until Present Day

 

 

Friday, May 6

 

PART 5 - Observations, Data, and Modeling

 

9:20 Jim Potemra: Recent changes and future plans for the APDRC

 

9:40 Peter Hacker: Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center: New activities and plans

 

10:00 Yongsheng Zhang: Atmospheric data collection, comparison and analysis in FY2004-05

 

10:20 Jan Hafner: PRIDE project­new data initiative: Preliminary results

 

10:40 Janli Jia: A first look at the results from a Hawaiian regional ocean model

 

 

10:40 10 min COFFEE BREAK

 

 11:10-11:30 General Discussion

 

 

~11:30 Sally's Farewell Party !!!!