2. Agenda for Symposium
Symposium on Indo Pacific Climate
MON. March 6
8:45-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:05 Welcome, Takuya Hirano, President, JAMSTEC
9:05-9:10 Opening Remarks, Taroh Matsuno, Director General, FRSGC
9:10-9:40 Keynote Speech, Syukuro Manabe, FRSGC,“Model Assessment of Decadal Variability and Trends in the Pacific Ocean”
9:40-10:10 Keynote Speech, Gary Meyers, CSIRO,“Sustained Observation of the Indian Ocean: Application for Research and Socio-economic Benefits”
10:10-10:20 Break
First Session: Indian Ocean Climate
Chair: Godfrey(CSIRO), Yamagata(FRSGC)
10:20-10:40 Jean Philippe Duvel, LMD,“The French Project LOTI on the Role of the Indian Ocean in the Tropical Climate Variability”
10:40-11:00 Stuart Godfrey, CSIRO,“Annual and Shorter-Frequency Variability in the Equatorial Indian Ocean, and Their Links to the Monsoon”
11:00-11:20 Balaji Rajagopalan, IRI,“On the Weakening Relationship between the Indian Monsoon and ENSO”
11:20-11:40 P N Vinayachandran, IISc,“Evolution of the Dipole Mode Events in an Ocean Model”
11:40-12:00 Saji N. Hameed, IGCR/FRSGC,“Why is the Equatorial Thermocline Not Shallow at the Eastern Indian Ocean?”
12:00-12:20 Tomonori Matsuura, NIED,“The Indian Ocean Dipole simulated in CGCM and OGCM”
12:20-12:40 Fei-Fei Jin, IPRC,“A Conceptual Model for the Indian Ocean Dipole-Mode”
12:40-12:50 Photo Session
12:50-13:50 Lunch
13:50-14:10 Pascale Delecluse, LODYC/IPSL,“Simulation and Characterisation of the Barrier Layer in the Indian Ocean”
14:10-14:30 Rosemary Morrow, LEGOS/GRGS,“The Influence of Tropical Forcing on Subtropical Rossby Waves in the SE Indian Ocean”
14:30-14:50 Peter Hacker, UH,“Bay of Bengal Sector Variability from Recent Ocean Observations and Models”
14:50-15:10 Satish Shetye, NIO,“Role of the ocean in formation of the Indian Monsoon Low Pressure Systems”
15:10-15:30 Tommy Jensen, IPRC,“Cross-Equatorial Transports in the Indian Ocean”
15:30-15:50 Andreas Schiller, CSIRO,“Thermocline Dynamics and Salinity Effects in the Indian Ocean in 1997-98”
15:50-16:10 Julian P McCreary, Jr., IPRC,“Modelling Salinity Distributions in the Indian Ocean”
16:10-16:30 Break
