CHAIRPERSON: Steve Woolnough
9.30 Crispian Batstone (UEA). "Air-sea interactions associated with the MJO".
9.45 Adriana Huerta-Casas (SOC)
"A study of the physical processes controlling
the heat budget in the equatorial pacific warm pool during
westerly wind bursts".
10.00 Luciano Pezzi (SOC) Tropical Pacific Ocean instability waves and their interaction with the PBL
10.15-10.30 Short overview talks
Adrian Matthews (UEA)
Grant Bigg (UEA)
Steve Woolnough (Reading)
10.30-10.45 Open discussion
10.45-11.15 Coffee
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Seasonal to interannual variability and ocean-atmosphere interaction.
CHAIRPERSON: Eric Guilyardi
11.15 Richard Washington (Oxford) "Indian and Pacific Ocean SST forcing and southern African rainfall: results from HadAM3 integrations"
11.30 Martin Todd (UCL) "The structure of the Walker circulation over the Indian Ocean region: A model-observation comparison"
11.45 Len Shaffrey (Reading) "The Cross-Equator Coherence of
the Tropical Energy Transport Variability in the Atlantic Ocean of
HadCM3."
12.00 Mat Collins (Reading) "ENSO predictability and prediction"
12.15-12.30 Short overview talks
Torsten Bistritschan (Oxford)
Eric Guilyardi (Reading)
12.30-12.45 Open discussion
12.45-1.15 Discussion of a potential thematic proposal on tropical climate (Julia Slingo and Ralph Toumi to lead)
1.15-2.15 Lunch (buffet provided)
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Land surface processes and biology.
CHAIRPERSON: Dave Lawrence
2.15 Tom Osborne (Reading) "The influence of vegetation and soil characteristcs on
tropical climate and hydrology in the Unified Model"
2.30 Nick Chappell (Lancaster) "Interaction between hydrological and
meteorological processes in SE Asia"
2.45 Itsuki Handoh (UEA) "Intra-seasonal variability of the
phytoplankton biomass in relation to the Madden-Julian Oscillation"
3.00-3.20 Short overview talks
Rob MacKenzie (Lancaster)
Martin Fowell (Lancaster)
David Stevenson (Edinburgh)
Dave Lawrence (Reading)
3.20-3.35 Open discussion
3.35-4.00 Coffee
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Upper tropospheric/ stratospheric variability.
CHAIRPERSON: Manoj Joshi
4.00 Amanda Kerr-Munslow (Oxford) "Driving of the tropical tropopause annual
cycle by localized breaking of synoptic-scale waves"
4.15 Chuansen Ren (Lancaster) "Modelling the cirrus and dehydration in the tropical tropopause layer"
4.30 Claudio Piani (Oxford) "Sensitivity of the QBO to stochastic sources of
gravity waves"
4.45 Mark McCarthy (Imperial) "Upper tropospheric humidity and ENSO"
5.00-5.15 Short overview talks
Charlotte Pascoe (RAL)
Marine Bonazzola (DAMTP, Cambridge)
Manoj Joshi (Reading)
5.15-5.30 Open Discussion
5.30 Closing remarks
