Program

Day1: Oct 30

09:00-10:00
Registration
10:00-10:10
Announcements

Welcome Address:

10:10-10:20
Yoshihisa Shirayama, JAMSTEC, Japan

First Session: Past, Present and Future of Indo-Pacific Climate Variability

10:20-11:00
Toshio Yamagata, APL, JAMSTEC, Japan
"New faces of climate variations in the Indo-Pacific sector"
11:00-11:40
Antonio Navarra(Invited), CMCC, Italy
"Atmosphere-ocean interactions at strong couplings in a simple model of El Niño"
11:40-12:20
F.J. Doblas-Reyes (Invited) IC3, Spain
"Decadal climate prediction: predicting the near term for adaptation and climate services"
12:20-14:00
Lunch Break

Second Session: ENSO Modoki

14:00-14:30
Swadhin Behera, APL/RIGC, JAMSTEC, Japan
"A new paradigm of climate variability in the tropical Pacific"
14:30-15:10
Surya Chandra Rao (Invited), IITM, India
"Tropical Climate Modes in high resolution coupled model"
15:10-15:50
Karumuri Ashok (Invited) IITM, India
"El Niño Modokis: Why they are a distinct class"
15:50-16:10
Coffee Break

Third Session: Ningaloo Nino

16:10-16:50
Ming Feng(Invited), CSIRO, Australia
"Variability and dynamics of the Ningaloo Niño"
16:50-17:20
Takahito Kataoka, U. Tokyo, Japan
"On the Ningaloo Niño/Niña"
17:20-17:50
Takeshi Doi, APL/RIGC, JAMSTEC, Japan
"Predictability of the Ningaloo Nino/Nina"
18:15-20:00
Reception

Day2: Oct 31

Fourth Session: Tropical and Subtropical Climate Variations

10:00-10:40
Ping Chang(Invited), Texas A&M Univ., USA
"The Impact of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Atlantic Meridional Mode on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity"
10:40-11:20
Gabriel Vecchi (Invited), GFDL, USA
"Atmospheric Nonlinearity and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation"
11:20-11:50
Yushi Morioka , RIGC, JAMSTEC, Japan
"Role of tropical SST variability on the formation of subtropical dipoles"
11:50-12:20
Chaoxia Yuan, APL, JAMSTEC, Japan
"Predictability of the Subtropical Dipole Modes in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model"
12:20-13:30
Lunch Break

Fifth Session: Progresses and Challenges in Climate Predictions

13:30-14:10
Arun Kumar (Invited), NCEP, USA
"Understanding changes in ENSO characteristics during last decade"
14:10-14:50
Sarah Ineson (Invited), Hadley Center, UK
"GloSea5: the Met Office high resolution prediction system"
14:50-15:30
Sebastien Masson (invited), LOCEAN, France
"The relationship between the mean and interannual variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) onset date and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) remains controversial"
15:30-16:10
Jing-Jia Luo (Invited) , BMRC, Australia
"Current status of intraseasonal-seasonal-to-interannual prediction of the Indo-Pacific climate"
16:10-16:30
Coffee Break

Sixth Session: African Perspective

16:30-17:00
Genito Amos Maure (Invited), Dep.of Physics, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
"Modeled impact of biomass burning aerosol loading on Southern Africa precipitation"
17:00-17:30
Alberto Francisco Mavume (Invited), Dep. of Physics, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
"Climatology of tropical cyclones in the South-West Indian Ocean"
17:30-18:00
Atanasio Joao Manhique (Invited), National institute of Meteorology, Mozambique
"Atmospheric and Ocean patterns associated with the extreme rains and floods in southern Africa in January 2013"
18:00-18:10
Closing Remarks(Toshio Yamagata)