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Day One: Monday 9th February 2009

08:30 - 10:00 Morning Session I
08:30 Introductory and Welcoming Remarks - Chair: David Karoly - Room: Auditorium
08:40 Welcome to Country - Aunty Doreen Garvey Wandin
08:50 Keynote - Welcoming Speech - Professor David de Kretser, AC, Governor of Victoria
09:10 Keynote - Welcoming Speeches - Dr. Richard Wardle (AMOS) and Dr. Rick Rosen (AMS)
09:30 Keynote - Welcoming Speech - Mr. Gary Foley (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
09:40 Logistics for the Conference (Neil Plummer)
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Tea Break

10:30 - 12:30 Morning Session II
  Weather and Climate Inter-Ocean: Southern Ocean Fronts, Overturning, and InterOcean Exchange THORPEX
  Chair: Ian Watterson
Auditorium		 Chair: Matthew England
Room 1		 Chair: Matt Wheeler
Level 5, Suite 1
10:30 Bertrand Timbal: "The rainfall decline in the south-east of Australia" Oleg Saenko: "Influence of the enhanced mixing within the Southern Ocean fronts on the overturning circulation" Keynote - David Parsons: "THORPEX - Recent accomplishments and future plans"
10:45 Tony Rafter: "Climate change projections of extreme rainfall for south-east Australia using a regional climate model" Clothilde Langlais: "Southern Ocean Dynamics: modelling the complex frontal structure" Kamal Puri: "Overview of THORPEX southern hemisphere plans and progress"
11:00 Judith Perlwitz: "The impact of ozone changes on 21st century southern hemisphere climate" James Screen: "The role of eddies in the Southern Ocean temperature response to the Southern Annular Mode" Manoel Gan: "Southern hemisphere THORPEX activities in south America"
11:15 Jack Katzfey: "Dynamical downscaling techniques: impacts on regional climate change for Tasmania at 14 km" Andrew Hogg: "Wind stress forcing of the southern ocean" Neil Gordon: "Southern hemisphere THORPEX SERA progress"
11:30 Rodney Martinez: "Advances on statistical and dynamical downscaling for seasonal prediction in western south America" Matthew Mazloff: "The southern ocean meridional overturning circulation as diagnosed from an eddy permitting state estimate" Elizabeth Ebert: "Verifying forecasts of high impact weather"
11:45 Ernesto Hugo Berbery: "The La Plata basin regional hydroclimate project (LPB)" Erik Van Sebille: "Agulhas Leakage properties inferred from numerical Lagrangian drifters in a 1/10th degree model" Ian Simmonds: "Issues relevant for Southern Hemisphere polar latitudes and Antarctica"
12:00 Ramiro Saurral: "The hydrological cycle in southern South America in three general circulation models: CNRM-CM3, ECHAM5/MPI-OM and GFDL-CM2.0" Guomin Wang: "Seasonal prediction of the Leeuwin current" Michael Uddstrom: "A decision tool to mitigate the effects of high impact weather"
12:15 Charles Jones: "Climate change and the Madden-Julian oscillation" Stephanie Downes: "Multi-model analysis of the subduction and circulation of southern ocean upper limb water masses in the 21st century" John McBride: "Australian and southern hemisphere high impact weather events"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Session I
  Weather and Climate Inter-Ocean - Ocean Processes & Theory THORPEX Urban
  Chair: Bertrand Timbal
Auditorium		 Chair: Andrew Hogg
Rooms 2 & 3		 Chair: Kamal Puri
Level 5, Suite 1		 Chair: Ashok Luhar
Room 1
14:00 Faye Cruz: "Characterizing the impacts of increasing leaf-level carbon dioxide on the land surface" Jan Zika: "Diagnosing the southern ocean overturning from tracer fields" Keynote - Elizabeth Ebert: "High impact forecasting in the future - TIGGE and plans for a global interactive forecast system" Keynote - Kim Dirks: "Blood carboxyhaemoglobin levels as a biomarker for urban air pollution exposure"
14:15 Simon Grainger: "Changes in the modes of variability of Southern Hemisphere circulation under CMIP3 climate change scenarios" Matthew England: "Response of the ocean thermohaline circulation to changes in southern hemisphere air-sea fluxes" Peter Steinle: "Confronting data assimilation in the southern hemisphere" Marina Baldi: "Winter hospital admissions and weather types in the Auckland region"
14:30 Ian Watterson: "Understanding the variability of Australian rainfall: the role of SST anomalies" Ross Griffiths: "Responses to time-dependent forcing in horizontal convection" Noel Davidson: "Issues relevant to tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere" Frank Yu: "Application of variational analysis of wind field based on LIDAR conical scans to air quality monitoring"
14:45 Li Shi: "Impact of MJO initial state on forecast of 1997/98 El Niño" Graham Hughes: "The role of available potential energy in the ocean overturning circulation" Matthew Wheeler: "The MJO and its relevance to the southern hemisphere tropics and extratropics" Gail Box: "Size-resolved properties of Sydney urban aerosols"
15:00 Johnny Chan: "Interannual variations of tropical cyclone activity in the Southern Hemisphere" Neil Holbrook: "Baroclinic modeling of the South Pacific gyre" Harun Rashid: "Predictability of the Madden-Julian oscillation in the POAMA dynamical seasonal prediction system" Sean Walsh: "Urban ventilation and photochemical smog in Melbourne for a future climate scenario"
15:15 Debbie Hudson: "Dynamical monthly forecasting for Australia: Bridging the gap between weather and seasonal forecasting" Andrew Kiss: "Western boundary current separation dynamics" Thomas Spengler: "Mid-latitude response to stationary and non-stationary tropical heating" Marcus Thatcher: "Modelling urban meteorology with a view to climate downscaling and air quality"
15:30 Caio Coelho: "Hybrid precipitation seasonal forecasts for south America" Robin Robertson: "Tidal effects on circulation and mixing in the Ombai Strait region" Kamal Puri and Neil Gordon - Panel discussion Mariana Barrucand: "Seasonal analysis of the urban heat island at Buenos Aires city"
15:45 Adam Smith: "Towards continuous flood prediction models for operational use in Australian flood warning" Andreas Klocker: "Quantifying the consequences of the nonlinear equation of state - What errors do we make by assuming it to be linear?"    
16:00 - 16:30 Afternoon Tea Break

16:30 - 17:30 Afternoon Session II
  Weather and Climate Inter-Ocean: Ocean Climate Models a Southern Hemisphere Perspective Urban
  Chair: Jack Katzfey
Auditorium		 Chair: Neil Holbrook
Rooms 2 & 3		 Chair: Gail Box
Room 1
16:30 Michael Reeder: "The diurnal evolution of cold fronts in the Australian subtropics" Keynote - Joellen Russell: "Intercomparison of IPCC coupled climate models' simulation of the Southern Ocean: climate, circulation and sea ice" Keynote - Judith J. Hoelzemann: "A Chemical Data Assimilation System for the Southern Hemispheric CCATT-BRAMS Atmospheric Model with Focus on Brazilian Fire Emissions"
16:45 Dean Sgarbossa: "Australian Easterly Dips" Alexander Sen Gupta: "Changes to the Southern Hemisphere extratropical ocean and sea-ice in the IPCC coupled climate models" Ashok Luhar: "Modelling concentrations of fine particulate matter over Darwin due to extensive savanna burning during 2003-2007"
17:00 Ross Blamey: "Mesoscale convective systems over South Africa: A case study" Arnold Sullivan: "How well do IPCC-AR4 models simulate australian rainfall teleconnections during double positive Indian ocean dipole events?"  
17:15 Jordy Hendrikx: "Simulations of seasonal snow in New Zealand: past and future" Simon Marsland: "Model/observation comparison of the indonesian throughflow in the Australian community ocean model (AUSCOM)"  
17:30 - 19:00 Posters
18:00 - 19:00 Icebreaker