2015 IASCLiP Virtual Workshop Agenda
To view the abstracts, click on the titles of the presentation. Poster presentations (located below the agenda) each will have links to the abstract and PDF of the poster. Please view the posters. Most of the Poster pages have comments.
Note that all times are in EDT (GMT-4)
| Time | Agenda/Abstracts | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 to 14:30 | Session I: Identifying opportunities and challenges of observing and modeling IAS variability and its teleconnections (chair: German Poveda) Click on download to view a video recording of the session on YouTube | Download | |
| 13:00 | Introductions/logistics | German Poveda (chair), Kristan Uhlenbrock | |
| 13:05 | Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) in the Intra-Americas Seas (IAS): Evidence from TRMM (for Session 1) | Edward Zipser | Download |
| 13:25 | Predictability of Eastern Pacific Intraseasonal Variability | Neena Joseph Mani | Download |
| 13:45 | IAS summer weather and its shaping by the atmosphere's zonal mean momentum | Brian Mapes | Download |
| 14:05 | Advancing the understanding of the IAS with the Community Earth System Model | Ernesto Munoz | Download |
| 14:30 to 15:30 | Poster Session I Poster presenters for this session will be online to respond to all questions and comments. Participants are encouraged to view the session posters and interact with the presenters by posing questions in the comment box available at the bottom of each poster's webpage. | ||
| 15:30 to 17:00 | Session II: Ocean-Land-Atmosphere interactions of the Continental Americas and the Caribbean (chair: Erick Rivera) Click on download to view a video recording of the session on YouTube | Download | |
| 15:30 | Introduction | Erick Rivera (chair) | |
| 15:35 | Water Cycle Linkages Between the Intra-American Seas and Continental Areas | Paul Dirmeyer | Download |
| 15:55 | Moisture origin and transport processes in Colombia, northern South America | Isabel Hoyos | Download |
| 16:15 | Do the Amazon and Orinoco freshwater plumes really matter for hurricane-induced ocean surface cooling ? | Julien Jouanno | Download |
| 16:35 | The Seasonality of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet and ENSO Relationship | Lakshmi Krishnamurthy | Download |
| Time | Agenda/Abstracts | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 13:00 to 14:30 | Session III: Weather and climate extremes in the Americas (chair: Chunzai Wang) Click on download to view a video recording of the session on YouTube | Download | |
| 13:00 | Introduction | Chunzai Wang (chair) | |
| 13:05 | Toward a unified system for understanding, predicting and projecting regional hurricane activity | Gabriel Vecchi | Download |
| 13:25 | Impacts of the Atlantic Warm Pool on Atlantic Hurricanes | Chunzai Wang | Download |
| 13:45 | Diurnal to Intraseasonal Variability and the Central American Drought | Yolande Serra | Download |
| 14:05 | Subseasonal-to-seasonal extreme rainfall scenarios for the Caribbean Basin | Angel G. Munoz | Download |
| 14:30 to 15:30 | Poster Session II (see Thursday posters below) Poster presenters for this session will be online to respond to all questions and comments. Participants are encouraged to view the session posters and interact with the presenters by posing questions in the comment box available at the bottom of each poster's webpage. | ||
| 15:30 to 17:00 | Session IV: Initiatives to improve observational coverage of the ocean, land, and atmosphere (chair: Yolande Serra) Click on download to view a video recording of the session on YouTube | Download | |
| 15:30 | Introduction | Yolande Serra (chair) | |
| 15:35 | COCONet and TLALOCNet: Providing the Intra-Americas Seas Region with Enhanced Atmospheric Observational Capacity | John Braun | Download |
| 15:55 | GPS Meteorological Networks for Process-Oriented Studies of Tropical Deep Convection | David Adams | Download |
| 16:15 | The CARIACO Ocean Time-Series: two decades of biogeochemistry and ecological research to understand ocean and climate variability | Frank Muller-Karger | Download |
| 16:35 | Sustained and Targeted Ocean Observations for Improving Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Hurricane Seasonal Forecasts | Ricardo Domingues | Download |
| Time | Agenda/Abstracts | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 13:00 to 14:30 | Session V: Identifying sources of model biases for the IAS in both coupled and ocean or atmospheric models (Chair: Vasu Misra) Click on download to view a video recording of the session | Download | |
| 13:00 | Introduction | Vasu Misra (chair) | |
| 13:05 | Intraseasonal variability in the IAS and Its Representation in Models | Eric Maloney | Download |
| 13:25 | The western Colombia low-level jet and its simulation by CMIP5 models | Juan Pablo Sierra | Download |
| 13:45 | The Sensitivity of Regional Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Simulations over the Intra-Americas Seas to the Prescribed Bathymetry | Vasu Misra | Download |
| 14:05 | The importance of ocean mesoscale variability for air-sea interactions and heat anomaly distribution in the Gulf of Mexico | Dian Putrasahan | Download |
| 14:30 to 15:30 | Poster Session III Poster presenters for this session will be online to respond to all questions and comments. Participants are encouraged to view the session posters and interact with the presenters by posing questions in the comment box available at the bottom of each poster's webpage. | ||
| 15:30 to 17:00 | Session VI: Panel discussion: observations, modeling, predictability, and prediction of the region (chair: Vasu Misra) Click on download to view a video recording of the session on YouTube | Download | |
| 15:35 | NASA Precipitation and Other Earth Science Data | George Huffman | Download |
| 15:45 | Ocean Observing in the Intra-American Seas | Lynn (Nick) Shay | Download |
| 15:55 | Model Biases in the Intra-American Seas | Shang-Ping Xie | Download |
| 16:05 | Q&A, general discussion, wrap-up |