CLIVAR

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY

International CLIVAR Project Office
National Oceanography Centre
European Way
Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
Phone: +44-2380 596777
Fax: +44-2380 596204
Email: icpo@noc.soton.ac.uk

Pacific Implementation Panel

CLIVAR/OOPC/GOOS/Argo/CPPS Workshop on the South Pacific

11-14 October 2005

Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Workshop Abstracts (PDF and Word)

Workshop objectives (PDF and Word)

Workshop presentations

SESSION 1: CLIMATE	TITLE
David Dewitt (IRI)	Coupled modelling and applications related to the South Pacific and surrounding areas
Scott Power (BoM)	Climate and sea-level in the South Pacific: variability and change
Tércio Ambrizzi (USP)	Teleconnection Patterns in the South Pacific
Niklas Schneider (IPRC)	Coupled air-sea interaction in the South Pacific: a model study
Wenju Cai (CSIRO)	Change of the Eastern Australian Current induced by an upward trend of the Southern Annular Mode
Alexandre Pezza (Univ. Melbourne)	Links between the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Southern Hemisphere cyclone and anticyclone behaviour
Bo Qiu (UH)	Decadal variability in the large-scale sea surface height field of the South Pacific Ocean: observations and causes
Boris Dewitte (CNES)	Rectification of the ENSO variability by interdecadal changs in the equatorial background mean state in a CGCM simulation
Gokhan Danabasoglu (NCAR)	Transpacific climate influences of the Southeast Pacific as suggetsed by Argo floats and climate models (Part 1) (Part 2)
Wolfgang Schneider (UDEC)	Property changes in South Pacific Water masses: BEAGLE (2003) - WOCE (1992)

SESSION 2: REGIONAL IMPACTS
Rene Garreaud (U Chile)	Clouds and circulation over the eastern South Pacific
Y Wang (IPRC)	Regional coupled modeling of the east Pacific climate
Alexis Chaigneau (COPAS/PROFC)	Surface circulation and turbulent flow characteristics in the eastern South Pacific from surface drifter measurements
David Enfield (NOAA/AOML)	Interannual to multidecadal variations of the divergent circulation affecting the Southeast Pacific region
Ken Takahashi (UW)	On the annual cycle in heat content in the Peru Current region
Aldo Montecinos (UDEC)	Equatorial origin of interdecadal variability in the eastern South Pacific
Samuel Horzabal (UDEC)	Interannual modulation of seasonal-scale variability in alongshore flow off Chile
Tercio Ambrizzi (USP)	The role of the tropical convection over the western Pacific and the Indian oceans in the generation of frost events in the southern cone of South America

SESSION 3: PREDICTION AND PREDICTABILITY
Carolina Vera (FCEN)	The South Pacific and forecast skill of seasonal variability over South America
Rodney martinez (CIIFEN)	Current initiatives in SE Pacific to improve the seasonal forecast along the western coast of South America and the new challenges to get a regional forecast for El Nino

SESSION 4: OBSERVING SYSTEM: ARGO
Howard freeland (IOS)	Argo: a global ocean climate observatory
Steve Raiser (UW)	Sensor on Argo floats
Nobuyuki Shikama (FORSGC)	Japanese Argo activities in the South Pacific
Mark Ignaszewski (FNMOC)	An introduction to the Argo data system
Josh Willis (JPL)	Estimates of interannual to decadal changes in upper-ocean thermal structure and circulation from a combination of satellite, Argo and other in situ data

SESSION 5: OBSERVING SYSTEM: RELATED PROGRAMS
Ted Strub (COAS)	Satellite observational capabilities - past, present and future
Etienne Charpentier (JCOMMOPS)	Global Drifter Program
Howard Diamond (NOAA)	The Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System (PI-GCOS)
Alexandre Ganachaud (IRD)	SPICE and plans for the SW Pacific
Ben Giese (TAMU)	Southern Hemisphere Pacific variability in SODA-POP
Andreas Schiller (CSIRO)	Operational Ocean Forecasting in the Southern Hemisphere: Observations, Models and Systems
Billy Kessler (NOAA/PMEL)	The pacific Upwelling and Mixing Physics (PUMP) Experiment
Ricardo Rojas (SHOA)	SHOA activities
Steve Diggs (CCHDO)	Data management issues for hydrography datasets
Rene Garreaud (U Chile)	VOCALS
Carina Lange (COPAS)	IMBER
Jurgen Alheit (IOW)	GLOBEC

The organisers would like to thank the local support from the Center for Oceanographic Research in the Eastern South Pacific (COPAS), and the Department of Geophysics (DGEO) of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, University of Concepcion.