TUESDAY MORNING (Joint Session with CSM Seasonal-to-Interannual and Atmosphere Model Working Groups), 13 April 1999, Main Seminar Room

8:00 - 8:30

Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:40

Welcome

AMWG, NVWG, and SIWG Co-Chairs

8:40

Diagnosis of CSM/CCM3 performance in context of its application

Sumant Nigam

9:00

Analysis of upper tropospheric humidity in CCM via TOVS radiances: Results from AMIP II
Subproject 3

Bill Collins

9:20

Improving intraseasonal variability in the NCAR CCM3 with alternate deep convection schemes

Eric Maloney

9:40

On-line diagnostics of convective transport using short-lived halocarbons

Victor L. Dvortsov, Marvin A. Geller, Susan Solomon, Sue M. Schauffler, Elliot L. Atlas, and Donald R. Blake

10:00

Interannual variability of the South Asian Monsoon related to the Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation

Jerry Meehl

10:20 - 10:40

Break

10:40

Simulation of seasonal variability over the PNA region in CCM3

J. Shukla

11:00

Time dependence of the PNA pattern in response to El Niño sea surface temperature

Hui Wang and Rong Fu

11:20

Zonal-eddy coupling and the dynamics of the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Zonal Index

Eric DeWeaver and Sumant Nigam

11:40

An upper ocean model for short-term climate variability

Gokhan Danabasoglu

12:00

Towards improving ENSO and tropical annual cycle simulation in CSM

Ed Schneider

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch (on your own)

1:30

Comparing NCEP, ERA Reanalyses, CCM3, CSM monthly mean upper circulation and temperatures

Jim Boyle

1:50

Status of the CSM Seasonal-to-Interannual Coupled Model

Joe Tribbia

2:10

The excitation of equatorial waves by deep convection in the NCAR community climate model CCM3

Lucrezia Ricciarduli

2:30

El Niño phenomena in the Parallel Climate Model (PCM) and the Climate System Model (CSM)

Jerry Meehl and Julie Arblaster

2:50

Coupled runs with the new T31x3' CSM

Bette Otto-Bliesner

3:10 - 3:30

Break, Damon Room

TUESDAY AFTERNOON (Joint Session with CSM Seasonal-to-Interannual Working Group), 13 April 1999, Chapman Room

3:30 - 3:50

Evolution of ENSO variability in COADS observations and CSM

Chul Chung and Sumant Nigam

3:50 - 4:10

Circulation regimes in the CSM simulations

Andy Robertson

4:10 - 4:30

An intermediate tropical atmospheric model: Can it be a useful adjunct to CSM?

David Neelin and Ning Zeng

4:30 - 4:50

CSM simulated 21st climates over the U.S.

Aiguo Dai

4:50 - 5:10

CCM3's simulation of tropical Atlantic variability

R. Saravanan

5:00 - 6:30

Reception, Damon Room
(snacks and beer and wine provided)

WEDNESDAY MORNING (NVWG Session only), 14 April 1999, Damon Room

8:00 - 8:30

Continental Breakfast, Main Seminar Room

8:30 - 10:30

Discussion

10:30 - 11:00

Break, Main Seminar Room

WEDNESDAY MORNING (Joint Session), 14 April 1999, Main Seminar Room

11:00 - 12:00

Plenary Discussion

Summary/Action Items (Working Group Chairs)