International Workshop on the South Pacific Convergence Zone, Apia, Samoa Aug 24-26 2010 Agenda
Day 1: Tuesday, 24th August 2010
Overview of South Pacific climate, and the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ)
Ocean and SPCZ variability/ ENSO teleconnections
SPCZ in climate models
Overview of South Pacific climate, and the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ)
- Jim Renwick, NIWA: Overview of the SPCZ
- Samoa Meteorology Division, and Dean Solofa, SPREP: Climate, ENSO and SPCZ impact in Samoa
- Arona Ngariu, Cook Islands Meteorological Service: International Scientific Research Workshop on the South Pacific Convergence Zone
- Arieta Baleisolomone, Fiji Meteorological Service: Fiji and the Effects of ENSO
- Lloyd Tahani, Solomon Islands Meteorological Service: Climate, ENSO and SPCZ impact in the Solomon Islands
- Moleni Tu''uholoaki, Tonga Meteorological Service: Climate, ENSO and SPCZ impact in Tonga
- Hilia Vavae, Tuvalu Meteorological Service: Climate, ENSO and SPCZ impact in Tuvalu
- Salesa Kaniaha, Vanuatu Meteorological Service: Climate, ENSO and SPCZ impact in Vanuatu
- Christophe Menkes,Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD): Meso-scale simulations of tropical cyclones in the south Pacific
- Alex Ganachaud,Laboratoire d'Etudes Géophysiques et d'Océanographie Spatiales(LEGOS)/IRD: SPCZ influence on southwest Pacific oceanic circulation: present and future
- Matthieu Lengaigne,Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD): Interannual variability of the SPCZ in observations and coupled General circulation models
- Jerry Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): The SPCZ and decadal climate variability
Ocean and SPCZ variability/ ENSO teleconnections
- Anne Juillet-Leclerc, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS): Sea surface temperature and sea surface salinity variability during the last century
- Wenju Cai, PCCSP: Simulation of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-rainfall teleconnection
- Adrian Matthews, UEA: Intra-seasonal variability of the SPCZ and its role in tropical-extra tropical interaction
- George Kiladis, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency (NOAA): Direct extra-tropical forcing of the SPCZ on synoptic time scales
SPCZ in climate models
- Jo Brown, PCCSP: The SPCZ in CMIP3 coupled model simulations of 20th century climate
- Francois Delage, PCCSP: Validation of the SPCZ using a pattern- matching technique
- Matthew Widlansky (Georgia Tech): A general theory for the spatial and transient behaviour of the SPCZ
- Drew Lorrey, NIWA: SPCZ and ENSO dynamics in the extended reanalysis Period using the South Pacific Rainfall Atlas (SPRAT)
- Axel Timmerman, International Pacific Research Center, IPRC: The effect of global warming on winds, the SPCZ and regional sea-level
- Scott Power, PCCSP: Global warming, ENSO, the SPCZ and tropical cyclones
- Gilles Bellon, Meteo-France: The SPCZ: Can idealized atmospheric modelling help us to understand interactions and feedbacks between convection and large-scale dynamics?
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| Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP) | Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) | Government of Samoa |
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| French Embassy in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Ird) | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) | Endorsed by : |
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| World Climate Research Programme on Climate Variability and Predictability International Pacific Implementation Panel | ||