DECADAL / INTERDECADAL CLIMATE EVENTS (14:35-18:10)
Chairperson : Hisashi Nakamura (FRSGC / Univ. Tokyo)
14:35-15:05
Indications of decadal variability in the oceanic frontal zones : A preliminary results
Alexander S. Kazmin (FRSGC)
15:05-15:35
Bi-decadal and penta-decadal oscillations over the North Pacific
Shoshiro Minobe (Hokkaido Univ.)
15:35-16:05
Ocean-Atmospheric Variability in the Pan-Atlantic basin
Youichi Tanimoto (FRSGC / Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
16:05-16:25
Interpentadal changes of seasonal cycle of SST in the North Pacific
Igor Zveryaev (IPRC) and Konstantin Selemenov (P. P. Shirshov Inst. Oceanology)
16:25-16:40
(Break)
16:40-17:10
ENSO and decadal climate variability within and between climate regimes : evidence from geochemical analysis of annually-banded massive corals in Papua New Guinea
Alexander W. Tudhope, Colin P. Chilcott (Edinburgh Univ.), Graham B. Shimmield (Dunstaffnage Marine Lab.), Malcolm T. McCulloch (Australian National Univ.), Rob Ellam (Scottish Universities Research & Reactor Centre) and John Chappell (Australian National Univ.)
17:10-17:40
SST Variability and its Mechanism in a Coupled Atmosphere / Mixed-Layer Ocean Model
Akio Kitoh, Tatsuo Motoi and Hiroshi Koide (MRI)
17:40-18:10
Two distinct interdecadal modes of the variability in the Pacific as simulated in the MRl coupled GCM
Seiji Yukimoto, Masahiro Endoh, Yoshiteru Kitamura, Akio Kitoh, Tatsuo Motoi and Akira Noda (MRI)
