WCRP Open Science Conference

Parallel Session B1
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Overview of the first floor
Monday 24 October
Session B1: Prediction from Sub-seasonal to Multi-decadal Scales (conveners: D. Anderson, G. Brunet, B. Kirtman, I.-S. Kang)
- Contributions to this session are oral presentations - Date: 24 October 2011 - Time: 13h30-18h00 - Location: Plaza F
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Time	Authors	Title
13:30-13:50	*Randall Dole (invited)*	Linking weather and climate

13:50-14:10	*Randal Koster (invited)*	GLACE-2: Impact of land initialization on subseasonal forecasts

14:10-14:25	Cecilia Bitz	The predictability of Arctic sea ice

14:25-14:40	William Merryfield	CHFP2: A coupled multi-seasonal forecast system for Canada

14:40-14:55	Franco Molteni	Predictability of tropical rainfall in the ECMWF seasonal forecast systems

14:55-15:10	Joseph Tribbia	The influence of low-frequency variability on the life cycles of high-impact weather during the winters of 2009-2011: simulations, predictions and observations

15:10-15:30	*Timothy Stockdale (invited)*	Strategies for improving seasonal prediction

15:30-16:00	Coffee break

16:00-16:20	Tim Palmer *(invited)*	Use of seamless prediction techniques to estimate and reduce uncertainties in multi-decadal forecasts of climate change

16:20-16:35	Wilco Hazeleger	Seamless Earth System prediction illustrated with EC-Earth

16:35-16:55	*Sardeshmukh Prashant D. (invited)*	A tropical source of error in multi-decadal climate predictions

16:55-17:10	Mojib Latif	The Equatorial Atlantic zonal mode: Dynamics, predictability and implications for ENSO forecasting

17:10-17:25	Paulo Nobre	Coupled ocean-land-atmosphere modeling of South American-tropical atlantic climate

17:25-17:45	*Doug Smith (invited)*	Decadal predictions of the Atlantic ocean and hurricane numbers

17:45-18:00	H. Lopez	Impact of Interactive Westerly Wind Bursts in CCSM3

18:00-18:15	Timothy Del Sole	Seamless diagnosis of predictability on mulitple timescales

18:15-18:35	*Amy Solomon (invited)*	A metrics framework to assess and validate decadal climate predictions and simulations

Parallel Session B1

Oral Presentations Guidelines

Parallel Sessions Descriptions

Overview of the first floor

Monday 24 October

Session B1: Prediction from Sub-seasonal to Multi-decadal Scales (conveners: D. Anderson, G. Brunet, B. Kirtman, I.-S. Kang)

Use the Conference Manager Search Tool for finding abstracts (search will retrieve list of all abstracts for the session in which the desired abstract is found)

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Session B1: Prediction from Sub-seasonal to Multi-decadal Scales
(conveners: D. Anderson, G. Brunet, B. Kirtman, I.-S. Kang)