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Day Four: Thursday 12th February 2009

08:30 - 10:30 Morning Session I
  Plenary Session - Special Session Honoring Dr. Julia Nogues-Paegle - Auditorium
08:30 George Kiladis: A presentation on understanding of the Southern Hemisphere circulation and predictability
09:00 Carolina Vera: Julia's work on South America climate variability
09:30 Celeste Saulo : Review of Julia Nogues-Paegle professional career and contributions to AMS and NCEP reanalysis project
10:00 VIDEO LINK-UP WITH JULIA NOGUES-PAEGLE
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea Break

11:00 - 12:30 Morning Session II
  Ocean and Atmosphere Observations Monsoon Regional
  Chair: Richard Wardle
Auditorium		 Chair: Mark Williams
Room 1		 Chair: Christian Jakob
Rooms 2 & 3
11:00 Scott Bainbridge: "GBROOS - Application of sensor networks to coral reef systems" Stefan Tulich: "High-frequency convective variability within the Australian monsoon" Carolina Vera: "About uncertainties in WCRP/CMIP3 climate simulations over South America"
11:15 Moninya Roughan: "Across-shelf processes off the coast of NSW: Results from the SEAMOS array" Muhammad Hassim: "Modelling the effects of overshooting tropical convection on the upper tropospheric/lower stratospheric environment - sensitivity to background humidity" Shoni Maguire: "Air flow influences on temperature and rainfall over south eastern Australia"
11:30 Laurent Seuront: "Introducing the southern Australian node of the integrated marine observing system (IMOS), SAIMOS" Todd Lane: "Cloud-resolving model performance during the tropical warm pool-international cloud experiment (TWP-ICE)" Brett Mullan: "AR4 climate model validation and scenarios for New Zealand"
11:45 Charitha Pattiaratchi: "Ocean observations using autonomous ocean gliders" Peter May: "The formation and impact on the Australian monsoon of a significant MCS during TWP-ICE" John McGregor: "Variable-resolution modelling of climate-change over Australia and nearby countries"
12:00 Ken Ridgway: "An observation network for the oceans around Australia - The IMOS bluewater and climate node" Alain Protat: "The statistical properties of tropical ice cloud systems and their variability along the tropical belt" Aurel Moise: "The Australian monsoon in the AR4 models: Projected changes"
12:15 Mal Heron: "The Australian coastal ocean radar network: A facility of the integrated marine observing system" Meiry Sakamoto: "Life cycle analysis of the SALLJEX convective systems" Lincoln Alves: "Large-scale changes in precipitation and temperature in South America under climate change - ensemble climate model projections and uncertainty assessments"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Session
  Ocean and Atmosphere Observations Earth System Science Regional
  Chair: Mal Heron
Auditorium		 Chair: Klaus Fraedrich
Room 1		 Chair: Carolina Vera
Rooms 2 & 3
14:00 Mark Hemer: "An investigation of trends in Southern Ocean extreme surface ocean waves" Kevin Trenberth: "The southern hemisphere energy budget: observations, model biases, and implications for climate sensitivity" Jean-Philippe Boulanger: "Climate change projection and uncertainties in Argentina"
14:15 Harry Hendon: "Seasonal prediction of Australian summer monsoon rainfall" Petteri Uotila: "A high resolution Southern Ocean cyclone climatology" Élodie Fernandez: "A statistical downscaling tool for Australia"
14:30 Helen Beggs: "An inter-comparison of global high-resolution sea surface temperature analyses" Wenju Cai: "Is the fast warming rate of the southern hemisphere midlatitude ocean driven by wind?" Andrew Cottrill: "Changes in MSLP over Queensland and the Southern Hemisphere"
14:45 Fabio Lima: "Relationships between tropical Madden-Julian atmopheric oscillation and the southern oceans" Vinu Valsala: "Interannual variability of southern ocean CO2 and CFC fluxes revealed from an OGCM driven by re-analysis ocean currents" Akio Kitoh: "Use of a global 20-km mesh GCM in climate change projections in Latin America"
15:00 Craig Steinberg: "The implementation of a Great Barrier Reef ocean observing system to monitor the western boundary currents of the Coral Sea" Jorgen Frederiksen: "Changes in southern hemisphere storms and rainfall" Cynthia Randles: "Impacts of biomass burning aerosol on the climate of southern Africa: A geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory GCM sensitivity study"
15:15 Richard Wardle: "Recent variabilty of atmospheric divergent circulations" Neville Nicholls: "Drought in southern Australia: trends, causes, impacts" Fiona Tummon: "Aerosol-climate feedbacks over the southern African sub-continent"
15:30 - 16:30 Afternoon Tea Break
16:00 - 18:00 Posters
18:30 - 20:30 Reception at Melbourne Aquarium