Preliminary Program
Workshop on Atlantic Climate Variability – Dynamics, Prediction and Hurricane Risk
September 8, 2017
AM Session will be chaired by Chia-Ying Lee
9:00AM – 9:15 AM Adam Sobel – Welcome
9:15 AM – 9:30AM Peter Zimmerli – Introduction and goals of the workshop
9:30AM – 10:00AM Rong Zhang – The Atlantic Multidecadal Variability: Mechanism, Predictability, and the Associated Impact on Hurricane Activity
10:00AM – 10:30AM Mark Cane – The AMO is Radiatively Forced
10:30AM – 11:00 AM Christina Patricola, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sources of Tropical Cyclone Predictability
11:00AM – 11:15AM Coffee Break
11:15AM – 11:45AM Timothy DelSole – The Role of Ocean Dynamics in Multi-Year Predictability
11:45AM – 12:15PM Martha Buckley- Predictability of North Atlantic Ocean Heat Content
12:15PM – 1:00PM Panel discussion moderated by Suzana Camargo
1:00PM – 2:00PM Lunch
PM Session will be chaired by Marla Schwartz
2:00PM – 2:30PM Mingfang Ting – Distinguishing Forced and Internal Multi-Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic and their Climate Impacts
2:30PM – 3:00PM Kerry Emanuel – On the Causes of the Late 20th Century North Atlantic Hurricane Drought
3:00PM – 3:15PM Coffee Break
3:15PM – 3:45PM Gabriel Vecchi, Mechanisms and Predictability of Seasonal to Decadal Atlantic Hurricane Variations
3:45PM – 4:15 PM James Kossin – Patterns of Atlantic Decadal Variability and Hurricane Intensity Change Along the U.S. Coast
4:15PM – 5:00PM Panel Discussion moderated by Adam Sobel