Afternoon, August 19, 2009
(15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions)

13:40－14:00 Opening speech

Chair： Bin Wang (LASG)

14:00－15:40 Session 1: Climate analysis and diagnosis (invited)

Chair： Mu Mu

14:00－14:20

Guoxiong Wu

Thermal characteristic over Tibetan Plateau in winter and spring and its connection with circulation

14:20－14:40

Huang-Hsiung Hsu

Identification of an interdecadal teleconnection Pattern in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere

14:40－15:00

Renhe Zhang

Role of the Atlantic SSTA in the relation of ENSO with Indo-East Asian summer monsoon

15:00－15:20

Benkui Tan

Coherent baroclinic wave packets in the atmosphere

15:20－15:40

Dake Chen

Upper ocean response to tropical cyclones observed by Argo: recent progress and future needs

15:40－16:00  Tea Break

16:00－18:00 Session 2: Climate predictability and prediction (invited)

Chair： Guoxiong Wu

16:00－16:20

Bin Wang (UH)

Predictability and prediction of the East Asian winter temperature

16:20－16:40

Mu Mu

Progresses in the study of “spring predictability barrier” for El Nino events

16:40－17:00

Masahide Kimoto

Decadal climate prediction – A challenge

17:00－17:20

Xuebin Zhang

Use of observations to constrain future climate projection

17:20－17:40

Phan Van Tan

Climate simulation and projection over Vietnam using Regional Climate Model (RegCM)

17:40－18:00

Jianping Li

Trends and interdecadal changes of weather potential predictability during last 50 years

18:30   Banquet

Morning, August 20, 2009
 (15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions)

08:30－09:50 Session 3: Climate change and extreme events (invited)

Chair： Bin Wang (UH)

08:30－08:50

Song Yang

A severe drought event in Northern China in winter 2008-09 and the possible influences of La Niña and Tibetan Plateau

08:50－09:10

Xiuqun Yang

Tropical forcing and the persistent snowing weather of Southern China in early 2008

09:10－09:30

Lixin Wu

Dipole-like warming trend in the tropical Indian Ocean

09:30－09:50

Bin Wang (LASG)

Coupling historical forecast ensemble information into four-dimensional variational data assimilation

09:50－10:10  Tea Break

10:10－11:50 Session 4: Multi-sphere interactions (invited)

Chair： Jianping Li

10:10－10:30

Wei-Chyung Wang

Aerosol-cloud-radiation-climate interaction

10:30－10:50

Xiaohong Liu

Aerosol, clouds and aerosol-cloud-climate interactions in NCAR Community Climate System Model Version 4 (CCSM4)

10:50－11:10

Chunzai Wang

Impact of the Atlantic warm pool on climate and hurricanes

11:10－11:30

Tianjun Zhou

Tropical ocean warming and the weakening tendency of East Asian summer monsoon

11:30-11:50

David Robinson

Climate change in Queensland

Afternoon, August 20, 2009
(10 minutes for presentation and 2 minutes for questions)

13:40－15:40 Session 5: Climate analysis and diagnosis (continued)

Chair： Tianjun Zhou

13:40－13:52

Rongcai Ren

Propagation properties of the Northern Hemispheric polar vortex oscillations in data and GCM simulation

13:52－14:04

Ming Fang

The equivalence of gravitational and centrifugal torques in the equatorial plane on a shallow atmosphere

14:04－14:16

Xiaofeng Li

Meridional and vertical propagation characteristics of submonthly northern hemisphere annual mode

14:16－14:28

Hyacinth C. Nnamchi

Global teleconnections associated with winter precipitation variabilities in Southern West Africa

14:28－14:40

Tianbao Zhao

Long-term trend of upper-air humidity over China from homogenized radiosonde data

14:40－14:52

Zuowei Xie

The characters and mechanism on the medium-range process of the Scandinavian high

14:52－15:04

Hong Ye

The interdecadal change of the relationship between ENSO and East China summer rainfall

15:04－15:16

Mirong Song

Spring Arctic Sea Ice as an indicator of North American summer rainfall

15:16－15:28

Tie Dai

Anthropogenic heat release and global climate change

15:28－15:40

Guodong Sun

A new approach to investigate the impacts of nonlinear climate change on the terrestrial ecosystem in China

15:40－16:00  Tea Break

16:00－18:00 Session 6: Climate predictability and prediction (continued)

Chair： Yimin Liu

16:00－16:12

Wansuo Duan

Revealing a nonlinear characteristic of El Nino events by conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation

16:12－16:24

Ruiqiang Ding

Predictability of the Madden-Julian oscillation estimated with observational data

16:24－16:36

Hongbo Liu

Impact of horizontal resolution on the regional climate simulations of the summer 1998 extreme rainfall along the Yangtze River basin

16:36－18:00  Session 7: Poster

Anmin Duan

Towards local air–sea interaction in ITCZ simulations

Bo Li

Simulation of wintertime North Pacific surface heat flux anomaly and air-sea interaction by LASG/IAP CGCM FGOALS_s1.0

Hailong Liu

Heat budget of the upper ocean in the south central equatorial Pacific

Hengyi Weng

Tropical Pacific-Indian Ocean SSTA related anomalous summer climate in China

Hongwei Yang

Multi-year simulation of EASM

Hui Yang

Influence of Arctic oscillation in winter

Jie Zhang

The impact of cloud simulation on reproducing the spring persistent precipitation over East Asia

Jing Yang

Biweekly and 21-30 day variations of the subtropical summer monsoon rainfall over the Lower reach of Yangtze River Basin

Liwei Zou

Development of a regional ocean-atmosphere coupled model and its performance in simulating the Western North Pacific summer monsoon

Lu Wang

Simulation of the leading mode of Asian-Australian monsoon interannual variability with the Beijing climate center atmospheric general circulation model

Ming Bao

Delayed impacts of the El Niño episodes in the central Pacific on the summertime climate anomalies of eastern China in 2003 and 2007

Qing Bao

An introduction of FGOALS-s1.1 and its performance in East Asia

Qiudan Dai

A simplified scheme for short-wave canopy radiative transfer models in land surface processes studies

Shoji Kusunoki

Changes in precipitation intensity of the East Asia summer mon- soon projected by an atmospheric global model with 20-km grid

Wei Chen

The decadal fluctuation of ENSO-south Asian monsoon relationship in a couple GCM

Wenmin Man

The 20th century climate simulated by FGOALS_gl

Xingyu Li

Cloud water path variation with temperature over China

Yanfeng Zhu

Thermal difference between the Tibet Plateau and the plain east of Plateau and its influence on rainfall over China in summer

Yimin Liu

Sensitivity of ITCZ configuration to cumulus convective parameterizations on an aqua planet

Yongqiang Yu

ENSO hindcast experiments using a coupled GCM

Yuanhai Fu

Change of East Asian summer rainfall interannual variability in the twenty-first century

Zhun Guo

The cloud-radiation forcing of 1998 simulated by an AGCM

Bo Wu

Relative contributions of the Indian Ocean and local SST anomalies to the maintenance of the western North Pacific anomalous anticyclone during El Nino decaying summer

Xianfeng Zeng

Inter-annual variability of Asian-Australian monsoon simulated by SAMIL: Impacts of cumulus convective parameterization schemes

Lei Feng

Out of phase change of summer rainfall between the southeast Tibetan Plateau (TP) and north India subcontinent

Cuijiao Chu

Seasonal and annual variation of storm track in the Northern Hemisphere and its association with the Aleutian Low

Jingwei Liu

Water vapor and cloud radiation feedback processes in
the coupled ocean-atmosphere model FGOALS _gl

Rui Zhang

The dominant source of the uncertainties that cause a significant spring predictability barrier for El Nino events