International Workshop on Ocean Climate Variations from Seasons to Decades with Special Emphasis on Pacific Ocean Buoy Network

海洋科学技術センター

平成8年度

CONTENTS

Summary

Conference Statement

Program

Opening Address

Proceedings

Introduction

Y Toba

Keynote Address

Moored time series measurements in support of climate studies

M. Mcphaden

Monsoon and ocean climate variability: The case of the Kuroshio

T. Yamagata

Seasonal-to-decadal variability of the Pacific North Equatorial Current: A downstream predictability and impacts assessment

R. Lukas

Triangle program: An integrated research plan on ocean climate studies at JAMSTEC

M. Hishida

Surface Buoy Development Plan at JAMSTEC

The surface buoy development and its operation plan: TRITON (Triangle Trans-Ocean Buoy Network)

Y Kuroda

Technological development of the surface meteorological and oceanographic buoy at JAMSTEC

Y Amitani and S. Hamaguchi

Optimal network design based on spatial sampling error study

J. She and S. Nakamoto

National and Regional Activities

Oceanographic characteristics along 137E in the western tropical Pacific-Comparison between two cruises of December 1992 and April 1994

M. Suk, G. Hong, S. Nam and D. Kang

Ocean-atmosphere research activities in Indonesia

T. Sribimawati and F. Syamsudin

Research activities in the East and South China Seas-Taiwan

T. Y D. Tang

Oceanographic activities for climate in the Japan Meteorological Agency

T. Manabe

Marine scientific research in the South Pacific-View from the inside

A. Simpson

Studies on ENSO and Monsoon

Observation of the Indian ocean equatorial jet

K. Mizuno

Global surface circulation derived from drifting buoy data and its predictability by simultaneous assimilation model of drifting buoy and altimetric data

T. Awaji, Y Ishikawa and K. Akitomo

Thermohaline stratification of the Indonesian Seas-model and observations

A. Gordon

Observing system simulation experiments (OSSE) on the JAMSTEC buoy system

A. Sumi, M. Kimoto and N. Masumoto

MRI coupled models for Pacific climate study

Y Kitamura

Seasonal prediction and predictability studies at ECMWF

D. Anderson

Observing system experiments for monitoring and predicting seasonal-to-interannual climate variations

N. Smith and R. Kleeman

The effect of wind and thermohalinc forcing on a warmpool variability and a circulation in the westem equatorial Pacific and the eastern Indian Ocean

K. Muneyama and S. Nakamoto

A numerical simulation of the Indonesian Through flow with a mixed layer-isopycnal ocean general circulation model

S. Nakamoto, J. Oberhuber, K. Ueyoshi, W. White, J. She and K. Muneyama

Some highlights of COARE

S. Godfrey

Meteorological research plan at JAMSTEC using shipboard Doppler radar

K. Yoneyama

Studies on Decadal Scale Oceanic Variabilities

ENSO and decadal modes found in SST field in the North Pacific

K. Hanawa

Decadal variability in ENSO and extratropical teleconnections

K. Trenberth

Decadal and ENSO-scale thermocline variations in the North Pacific Ocean

A. Miller

Subpolar gyre experiment in the North Pacific Ocean

Y Michida. K. Mizuno, N. Shikama and T. Takizawa

Effects of mesoscale phenomena on water mass formation and transportation in the subtropical/subpolar frontal region

H. Mitsudera and Y Yoshikawa

Interaction between the northern North Pacific and its marginal seas

T. Takizawa

International Cooperation

World Wide Web access to TAO and hydrographic data

N. Soreide

Initial priorities for the global ocean observing system and the Pacific Buoy Network

E. Lindstom

List of Participants

Annex: Letter from the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group