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.