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All talks were held in Johnson Hall, Rm. 102. All breaks were held outside JHN102, in the foyer, Rm. 100J.

Presentations archived as PDFs are available for download and can be accessed by clicking titles below.
Links to video of portions of the banquet program are available at the bottom of the page.

Time Monday, September 27 Tuesday, September 28
- Tropical Climate Variability I
(Chair: M. Yanai)
Diagnostic Studies of the general circulation
(Chair: Y. Kushnir)
8:30 - 9:00am - Registration - - Registration -
9:00 - 9:10am Introductory Remarks Introductory Remarks
9:10 - 9:40am Taroh Matsuno: From Kelvin wave to tropical convection Maurice Blackmon: My work with Mike on the general circulation
9:40 - 10:00am Jim Renwick: Tropical forcing of South Pacific Rossby wave David Gutzler: Data sets for climate diagnostics
10:00 - 10:20am Rei Ueyama: On the cause of the variability in the Brewer-Dobson circulation John Horel: Planetary to local scales--the tools remain the same
10:20 - 11:00am Coffee Break Coffee Break
- Tropical Climate Variability II
(Chair: J. Young)
Climate change
(Chair: G. North)
11:00 - 11:30am CP Chang: Features of the Asian Winter Monsoon Isaac Held: Transient climate sensitivity and the time scales of the response to external forcing
11:30 - 11:50am Clara Deser: El Nino and La Nina Wookap Choi: Long term variation of lower polar stratospheric temperatures
11:50am - 12:10pm Huang-Hsiung Hsu: Multi-scale interaction in the tropical western North Pacific during boreal summer Gabi Hegerl: Influence of human and natural forcing on European seasonal temperatures over the past five centuries
12:10 - 12:30pm Katrina Virts: Cirrus in the Tropical Tropopause Transition Layer Imke Durre: "Only believe trends you can see," and other lessons in statistical inference
12:30 - 2:00pm Lunch break in Mary Gates Hall Lunch break in Mary Gates Hall
- Extratropical Climate Variability
(Chair: R. Garreaud)
Land/Ocean/Ice
(Chair: S. Nigam)
2:00 - 2:30pm Dennis Hartmann: Eddy feedbacks, atmospheric variability, and climate change Bob Dickinson: Statistical descriptions of land surface processes
2:30 - 2:50pm David Thompson: The atmospheric response to zonal-mean thermal forcing Brian Smoliak: An observational assessment of large-scale Atlantic SST variability
2:50 - 3:10pm Grant Branstator: The atmospheric response to time-dependent tropical heating Todd Mitchell: Fertilization of marine phytoplankton by aerosol
3:10 - 3:30pm Ying Li/Gabriel Lau: Impacts of downstream eddy development on the North Atlantic atmospheric circulation during ENSO Ignatius Rigor: An outlook for Arctic sea ice
3:30 - 4:00pm Coffee Break Coffee Break
- Extratropical Climate Variability
(Chair: E. DeWeaver)
Decadal variability and institutional issues
(Chair: G. Rasmusson)
4:00 - 4:30pm Brian Hoskins: Is the synoptic view of regimes of flow valid or useful? Shukla: On the Role of Unforced Multidecadal Variability in Twentieth Century Global Warming
4:30 - 4:50pm Hisashi Nakamura: Dominant summertime climate variability in the western North Pacific: Its dynamics, model reproducibility and future projection Glenn White: How Mike Wallace helped make meteorology (almost) as respectable as atmospheric science
4:50 - 5:10pm Justin Wettstein: Eddy-driven and subtropically-influenced jet variability Joe Casola: Mike's service to the National Academy
5:10 - Mike Wallace: Personal remarks
(5:30 - 9:30pm) Banquet at University Club - Song Lyrics - Video: AO / The Courtship of Susie Wallace / The General Circulation / If I were Mike Wallace (5:30 - 7:30pm) Closing reception hosted by Mike and Susie Wallace

Last update: 09/10/2010