IPRC 2nd Annual Symposium
May 16-17, 2002
East-West Center (Imin Conference Center), Asia Room

Agenda

May 16 (Thursday)

Opening remark by the IPRC Director  8:30-8:40

Session I: Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions
(Session Chair: Jay McCreary)
8:40-9:00
    Bin Wang, Coupled monsoon-ocean modes and Asian-Australian monsoon
    variability.
9:00-9:20
    Soon-Il An, Interdecadal changes in ENSO: Nonlinear effects.
9:20-9:40
    Xiuohua Fu, Coupling between the northward propagating ISO and SST in the
    Indian Ocean.
9:40-10:00
    Tim Li, Spatial and temporal structures and mechanisms of the TBO.
10:00-10:20
    Saji Hameed, Indian Ocean dipole mode ? the issues, the prospects.
10:20-10:40

    Hanna Annamalai, A conceptual model for the Indian Ocean climate
    variability.

10:40-10:55 break

Session II: Pacific Climate Variability
(Session Chair: Bin Wang)
10:55-11:15
    Jay McCreary, Does the ocean force the atmosphere in the North Pacific?
11:15-11:35
    Masami Nonaka, Co-variability in SST and sea surface winds in the Kuroshio
    Extension region.
11:35-11:55
    Justin Small, Tropical instability waves: Effect of SST on the atmospheric
    boundary layer.
11:55-12:15
    Shang-Ping Xie, Air-sea feedbacks over cool oceans.
12:15-12:35
    Fei-Fei Jin, Why the El Nino is stronger than the La Nina?

12:40-1:40 Lunch

Session III: Oceanic Processes in the Kuroshio Extension
(Session Chair: Shang-Ping Xie)
1:40-2:00
    Humio Mitsudera, Subpolar water pathways in the Kuroshio-Oyashio confluence.
2:00-2:20
    Takuji Waseda, Toward predicting the Kuroshio-Oyashio marine system.
2:20-2:40
    Konstantin Lebedev, Synthesis of the acoustic tomography, satellite
    altimetry and in situ observations at the Kuroshio Extension region.
2:40-3:00
    Gang Yuan, Observations of barotropic currents and tides in the Kuroshio
    Extension region from long-range reciprocal acoustic transmissions.
3:00-3:20
    Nikolai Maximenko, Near surface dynamic structure of the Kuroshio Extension.

3:20-3:40 break

Session IV: Dynamics of the Western Boundary Currents
(Session Chair: Humio Mitsudera)
3:40-4:00
    Tangdong Qu, Bifurcation of the North Equatorial Current in the Pacific.
4:00-4:20
    Yoo-Yin Kim, Preliminary results on seasonal and interannual variabilities
    of  the NEC bifurcation latitude from a high-resolution OGCM.
4:20-4:40
    Hyoun-Woo Kang, Modeling the low-latitude western boundary currents using
    the POM.
4:40-5:00
    Tommy Jensen, Western boundary currents in layer models of the Indian and
    Pacific Oceans.


May 17 (Friday)

Session V: Oceanic Processes and Modeling
(Session Chair: Peter Hacker)
8:30-8:50
    James Potemra, Implications of Indonesia throughflow variations.
8:50-9:10
    Dailin Wang, Modeling the oceanic mixed layer.
9:10-9:30
    Takahiro Endoh, Numerical study of the formation of the mesothermal
    structure in the North Pacific subarctic region.
9:30-9:50
    Bohyun Bang, Mixed-layer modeling in the subpolar gyre.
9:50-10:10
    Toru Miyama, Vertical propagating wave in the Indian Ocean.
10:10-10:30
    Zuojun Yu, Simulating surface sinility in the tropical Indian Ocean.

10:30-10:50 break

10:50-11:10
    Ming Feng (CSIRO), Interannual variability in the tropical Indian Ocean: A
    two-year time scale of IOD.
11:10-11:30
    Max Yaremchuk, Variational analysis of quasi-geostrophic turbulence in the
    North Pacific subarctic front.

Session VI: Global Climate Change and Variability
(Session Chair: Tim Li)
11:30-11:50
    Kelvin Hamilton, Atmospheric response to global climate forcing.
11:50-12:10
    Weijun Zhu, Empirical estimates of global climate sensitivity: An assessment
    of strategies using a coupled GCM.
12:10-12:30
    Yongsheng Zhang, Possible mechanism of the increase of spring snow depth
    over the Tibetan Plateau in the recent decade.

12:30-1:40 Lunch

Session VII: Regional and Global Atmospheric Modeling
(Session Chair: Kelvin Hamilton)
1:40-2:00
    Yuqing Wang, The IPRC_RegCM version 1.1 and its simulation of 1998 severe
    precipitation events over East Asia.
2:00-2:20
    Omer Sen,  Effect of Indochina Peninsula surface cover change on the East
    Asia summer monsoon rainfall.
2:20-2:40
    Haiming Xu, Effects of the Andes on the eastern Pacific climate ? A
    sensitivity experiment.
2:40-3:00
    Jan Hafner, Far field effect of Hawaiian Islands: MM5 simulations.

3:00-3:20 break


3:20-3:40
    Johannes Loschnigg, Climate modeling and climate impacts: Preliminary
    results.
3:40-4:00
    Ping Liu, Using, evaluating and improving the ECHAM model.

Session VIII: APDRC and Computer Network
(Session Chair: Kelvin Hamilton)
4:00-4:20
    Ron Merrill, Computing at the IPRC and APDRC.
4:20-4:40
    Peter Hacker, The Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center (APDRC): Status and
    plans.