Venue: Observatoire de Paris, salle du conseil

Agenda and presentations:

Introduction:

• Eric Guilyardi (IPSL/LOCEAN and CGAM) Goal of workshop and organisation
• Chunzai Wang (NOAA/AOML) Review of ENSO theory

Session 1: ENSO in IPCC AR4 and other MIPs

• Krishna AchutaRao (PCMDI) ENSO simulation in coupled ocean-atmosphere models: are the current models better ?
• Antonietta Capotondi (Univ. Colorado/NOAA) Spatial and temporal structure of the tropical Pacific interannual variability in 20th century coupled simulations
• Geert Jan van Oldenborgh (KNMI) El Niño in a changing climate: a multi-model study
• Sjoukje Philip (KNMI) Shifts in ENSO coupling processes under global warming
• Julie Leloup (IPSL/LOCEAN) Detecting El Niño change using neural networks
• Matthew Collins (UK Met Office) QUMP or El Niño- or La Nina-like climate change ?
• Eric Guilyardi (IPSL/LOCEAN and CGAM) El Niño-mean state-seasonal cycle interactions in a multi-model ensemble
• Bill Merrifield (CCCMA) Changes to ENSO under CO2 doubling in a multi-model ensemble [presentation made by Eric Guilyardi]

Session 2: ENSO theory, mechanisms and teleconnections

• Alexey Fedorov (Yale Univ.) Estimating net energy dissipation rates in the tropical ocean: diabatic effects on ENSO dynamics.
• Sandrine Bony (IPSL/LMD) Marine boundary layer clouds at the heart of tropical cloud feedback uncertainties in climate models
• Gabriel Vecchi (GFDL) Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing
• Pascal Terray (IPSL/LOCEAN) El Niño-monsoon teleconnections in IPCC AR4
• Scott Power (BMRC) Predictability of interdecadal changes in ENSO teleconnections
• Pascale Braconnot (IPSL/LSCE) A review of paleao-ENSO research
• Jo Brown (CGAM ) Modelling mid-Holocene ENSO - towards constraining model predictions of future change with palaeo-data
• Matthieu Lengaigne (IPSL/LOCEAN) The impact of WWE on El Niño
• Andrew Turner (CGAM) The effect of climate change and systematic model bias on the monsoon-ENSO system: the TBO and changing ENSO regimes

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