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CLIVAR Pacific Project Abstracts

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Current Projects List
PIs and Insts
Project Title
FY Funded
Ming Cai,Florida State University,
Huug M. van den Dool
University of Maryland
Lingering Memory and Extreme Weather: Climatology, Variability, and Prediction 6/1/04 - 5/31/07
Dr. Ping Chang
Dept of Oceanography
Texas A&M Univ
12/01/01 - 11/30/04
Dr. Benjamin S. Giese Dept of Ocenanogrpahy, Texas A&M Univ
Decadal Control of ENSO Variability: The Role of Dynamical Forcing from the Southern Hemisphere 12/01/01 - 11/30/04
Dr. Leslie M. Hartten1,2,; Dr. Kenneth S. Gage2,1; and Dr. George N. Kiladis 2
1 CIRES, Univ of Colorado and 2 NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory
Boulder, Colorado
Intraseasonal and Interannual Variability of Lower-Tropospheric Winds Over the Tropical Pacific 11/01/01 - 10/31/04
Dr. Fei-Fei Jin
Dept of Meteorology, 
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Univ of Hawaii
Coupled Dynamics of Climate State Asymmetry and ENSO 7/1/99 - 6/30/02
Dr. Gary S.E. Lagerloef
Earth and Space Research
The Influence of Near-Surface Horizontal and Vertical Ocean Circulation on the Evolution and Modulation of ENSO Events in the Pacific
09/01/02 - 08/31/05
Dr. Zhengyu Liu
Center for Climatic Research/Dept of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
Determining Interdecadal Changes of Equatorial Thermocline in the Tropical-Extratropical Pacific Climate System 07/01/02 - 06/30/05
Dr. Robert N. Miller
College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State Univ
Data Assimilation in Coupled Models of the Atmosphere and Ocean in the Pacific Basin 08/1/97 - 07/31/00
Dr. J. David Neelin 
Dept of Atmospheric Sciences and  Inst of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Univ of California, Los Angeles
Hybrid and Intermediate Modeling of the Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System 06/01/98 - 05/31/01
Toshiaki Shinoda, Klaus Weickmann
NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Roles of oceanic intraseasonal variability in the El Nino Southern Oscillation and its prediction 2004
Dr. Niklas Schneider and Dr. Elena Yulaeva
Climate Research Division, Scripps Inst of Oceanography
Forecasting Climate Changes over North America from Predictions of Ocean Mixed Layer Anomalies in the Tropical and Mid-latitude Pacific 12/01/01 - 11/30/04
Dr. Paul S. Schopf
Climate Dynamics Program, School of Computational Sciences
George Mason Univ, Fairfax, VA
Modeling Studies of the Decadal Variability of ENSO and Climate 12/01/01 - 11/30/04
Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth 
Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Interannual Variability of the Global Atmospheric General Circulation 05/01/99 - 04/30/02
Dr. Daniel J. Vimont,
Ctr for Climatic Research
Univ of Wisconsin – Madison
Dr. Michael Alexander,
NOAA / CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Connections Between Mid-latitude and Tropical Climate Variability in the Pacific: the Role of the Seasonal Cycle and Subtropical Air-Sea Interaction 3/1/04-2/28/07
Dr. Bin Wang
Dept of Meteorology and IPRC, 
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology,
Univ of Hawaii
Impacts of the Asian-Australian Monsoon on ENSO 07/1/97 - 10/31/00
Drs. Duane Waliser1, Dr. William Stern 2, Dr. Siegfried Schubert 3, Dr. Mojib Latif 4, Dr. Stefan Liess1; 1 Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, State Univ of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY; 2 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), NOAA, Princeton, NJ; 3 Data Assimilation Office (DAO),Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; 4 Max-Planck Inst (MPI), Hamburg, Germany Exploring the Benefits and Limits of Dynamical Predictions of the Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillation: Steps Towards an Experimental Prediction Program 12/01/01 - 11/30/04
Dr. Hui Wang, Dr. Robert X. Black, and Dr. Rong Fu
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Inst of Technology, Atlanta
Characteristics and Predictability of the Extratropical Atmospheric Response to the ENSO Cycle 12/01/01 - 11/30/04
Dr. Jin-Yi Yu and Dr. James C. McWilliams
Dept of Atmospheric Sciences
,Univ of California Los Angeles
Relating Basin-wide and Inter-basin Interactions to Decadal Variability of ENSO: A Mechanism Study Using Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean GCM Simulations 11/01/00 - 12/31/04
Dr. Chidong Zhang
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Univ of Miami, Miami, FL
A STUDY ON THE MJO-ENSO PROBLEM 10/01/02 - 09/30/05
Past Projects List
PIs and Insts
Project Title
FY Funded
Dr. Michael Alexander and Dr. Antonietta Capotondi 
NOAA/CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
The Impact of Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction in the Tropical and Extratropical Pacific on Climate Variability 4/1/98 - 10/31/00
Dr. Ping Chang
Dept of Oceanography
Texas A&M Univ
On the Processes That Cause Decadal Modulation of ENSO and Its Predictability 5/1/98 - 4/30/01
Dr. Harry Hendon, Dr. Martin Hoerling, and Dr. Klaus Wolter
NOAA CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Dynamics and Teleconnections of Maritime Continent Drought 5/1/99 - 4/30/02
Dr. Richard H. Johnson
Colorado State Univ
Convective and Boundary-Layer Processes in the Vicinity of the South China Sea during the Onset of the East Asian Monsoon 5/1/98 - 4/30/00
Dr. Zhengyu Liu 
Center for Climatic Research/Dept of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
Determining the Decadal Change of Pacific Equatorial Thermocline 9/1/98 - 8/31/01
Dr. Andrew M. Moore
Univ of Colorado
Stochastic Forcing of Low-Frequency Variability in the Tropical Pacific 9/1/97 - 8/31/00
Dr. Sumant Nigam
Dept of Meteorology, Univ of Maryland
Diagnostic Analysis and Modeling of the PNA Pattern and Its Linkage to the Madden-Julian Oscillation 7/1/99 - 6/30/02
Dr. Shiling Peng1 and Dr. Walter A. Robinson2
1NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, 
2
Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Modeled Impact of Mid-Latitude SST Anomalies on the Atmosphere and Its Dependence on GCM Climatology 5/1/97 - 4/30/00
Dr. S. George H. Philander and Dr. Alexey V. Fedorov
Dept of Geosciences, Princeton Univ
How El Niño Changes when  Climate Changes 9/1/98 - 8/31/01
Dr. Walter A. Robinson
Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Zonally Symmetric Response to ENSO 6/1/97 - 5/31/00
Dr. Paul Schopf
Inst for Computational Sciences and Informatics, George Mason Univ
Modeling Studies of Interdecadal Variation of El Ni–o/Southern Oscillation 5/1/98 - 7/31/01
Dr. John M. Toole1 and Dr. Huai-Min Zhang2
1Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst
2Univ of Rhode Island
The Time-Dependent Heat Budgets of the Tropical Warm-Water Pools 9/1/99 - 8/31/01
Dr. Chunzai Wang
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Miami, Florida
Diagnostic and Numerical Modeling Studies of Pacific ENSO and ENSO-Related Climate Variability 11/01/00 -10/31/03
Dr. Michio Yanai and Dr. Xiaodong Liu
Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Univ of California, Los Angeles
Variability of the Asian-Australian Monsoon 8/1/99 - 7/31/01
Dr. Xubin Zeng
Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Univ of Arizona
Impact of Marine Surface and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes on Climate Modeling on Seasonal-to-Interannual Time Scales 9/1/99 - 8/31/01

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