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Day Three: Wednesday 11th February 2009

08:30 - 10:30 Morning Session I
  Ocean and Atmosphere Observations Monsoon International Polar Year
  Chair: Gary Meyers
Auditorium
Chair: Mick Pope
Rooms 2 & 3
Chair: Steve Rintoul
Room 1
08:30 Keynote - John Zillman: "The global climate observing system (GCOS) in the southern hemisphere"   Serguei Sokolov: "The circumpolar structure and distribution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current fronts: mean circumpolar paths and variability"
08:45 Alice Grimm: "Inter-decadal oscillations of the South American monsoon and its extreme precipitation events" Yasushi Fukamachi: "Mooring measurement of the deep western boundary current over the eastern flank of the Kerguelen plateau in the Indian Ocean sector of the Antarctic"
09:00 Jasmine Jaffres: "Mixed layer depth variability in the coral sea from ARGO observations" Paula Gonzalez: "Large-scale dynamical processes associated with the summer intraseasonal variability in South America" Andrew Meijers: "ACC cross frontal eddy heat transport inferred from satellite altimetry"
09:15 Phil Sutton: "Understanding decadal change in sea surface height in the southern hemisphere" Hsi-Yen Ma: "Sub-monthly variablity in the South American monsoon system" Leila Vespoli Carvalho: "Intraseasonal variations in the polar jet during the austral spring and relationships with tropical activity"
09:30 Helen Phillips: "The observed seasonal cycle of salinity in the Indian Ocean" Nicolas Fauchereau: "Sub-seasonal variability of convection and rainfall over the southern Africa: scale-interactions and implications for predictability" Jean-Baptiste Sallee: "The upper cell of the Southern Ocean"
09:45 Benny Peter: "Variability of surface circulation of south Indian Ocean derived by combining drifter and satellite observations" Wassila Thiaw: "Intraseasonal variability of southern Africa rainfall" João Marcos Azevedo Correia De Souza: "Estimating the heat flux contribution by individual eddies in the Southern Ocean portion adjacent to the south Atlantic"
10:00 Matthew Tully: "Variability in the ozone profile over Macquarie Island" Neil Hart: "A new approach to assessing the relative importance of tropical temperate troughs for south African summer rainfall" Rosemary Morrow: "Eddy response to Southern Ocean climate modes"
10:15 Claire Spillman: "Seasonal dynamical prediction of coral bleaching for Australia" Mark Williams: "The global tropical circulation and the monsoons from the perspective of four planetary waves" Ben McNeil: "Earlier Southern Ocean acidification from seasonal amplification of anthropogenic CO2 uptake"
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea Break

11:00 - 12:30 Morning Session II
  Ocean and Atmosphere Observations Monsoon Pacific Islands Science
  Chair: Harry Hendon
Auditorium
Chair: Alice Grimm
Rooms 2 & 3
Chair: Janita Pahalad
Room 1
11:00 Peter Baines: "El Niño and the global biosphere" Scott Collis: "A radar based study of the link between dynamical properties and microphysical habits in tropical convection during TWP-ICE" Cheryl Anderson: "Pacific research and assessment needs in the Pacific Climate Information System"
11:15 Peter Webster: "The dynamic warm pool: a new paradigm for understanding the role of the tropics in the southern and northern hemispheres" Suping Zhang: "Global summer monsoon rainy seasons" Scott Power: "The impact of ENSO and the skill of statistical seasonal prediction systems in ten south-west Pacific island countries"
11:30 Greg Holland: "Do tropical cyclones have an important impact on the global energy budget?" Surendra Rauniyar: "Diagnosing the effect of MJO on diurnal cycle of rainfall in Southern Hemisphere" John Marra: "Pacific region integrated climatology information products (PRICIP)"
11:45 Paulo Polito: "Quikscat wind vector trends and amplitude modulation" Yun Li: "A monsoon-like southwest Australian circulation and its relation with rainfall in southwest western Australia" Mark Morrissey: "A tropical rainfall model built from PI-GCOS-supported Pacific Island Meteorological Service tipping bucket raingauge data"
12:00 Justin Peter: "Microphysical characteristics of non-seeded and seeded shallow cumulus clouds in Brisbane" Mick Pope: "Regimes of the north Australian monsoon and rainfall extremes" Yahya Abawi: "Case studies on climate prediction application in the Pacific islands"
12:15 Alexandre Ganachaud: "SPICE: southwest Pacific Ocean circulation and climate experiment" Lori Chappel: "Forecasts of regime changes and their verification in the 2005-06 Australian monsoon" James Chittleborough: "Sea level and climate monitoring for Pacific island countries"
12:30 Adjourn for the Day at 12:30
13:00 - 22:30 Conference Excursion - Excursion to the Healesville Sanctuary