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Day Five: Friday 13th February 2009

08:30 - 10:30 Morning Session I
  Ocean and Atmosphere Observations Earth System Science Regional
  Chair: Charitha Pattiaratchi
Auditorium		 Chair: Roger Dargaville
Room 1		 Chair: Janice Lough
Rooms 2 & 3
08:30 Trevor McDougall: "New thermodynamic description of seawater: pathway towards adoption" Leon Rotstayn: "Why aerosols matter for Australian climate change" Ann Henderson-Sellers: "Regional climate change adaptation policy development in southern hemisphere areas sensitive to climatic extremes"
08:45 Melanie O'Byrne: "An experimental study of structure and variability in headland wake flows" Peter Hurley: "Towards earth systems modelling with ACCESS: Current status and future plans for atmospheric chemistry with the UK chemistry and aerosols model" Michael Grose: "Climate variability and change in Tasmania over the twentieth century as a framework for examining climate"
09:00 Roger Francey: "Detecting anthropogenic change in the background atmospheric CO2 growth" Daohua Bi: "AusCOM: an IPCC-class coupled ocean and sea ice model for Australian climate studies" Ulf Gräwe: "Impact of climate variability on the circulation of an east-Australian bay"
09:15 Wilhelmus De Ruijter: "Sustained observations of transport, eddies and Rossby waves in the Mozambique Channel" David Stephens: "An ENSO monitoring and prediction system based on new indices of the Southern Oscillation and eastern Pacific sea surface temperatures" Pandora Hope: "A strengthening link between rainfall variability in the east and west of southern Australia"
09:30 Eric Schulz: "Verification of numerical weather prediction surface fluxes over the ocean using ships, buoys and satellites" Jie Song: "The anti-cyclonic and cyclonic Rossby waves breaking in the southern hemisphere troposphere and the Antarctic oscillation" Christian Jakob: "Rainfall mechanisms over inland northwestern Australia and possible links to recently observed trends"
09:45 Katy Hill: "Decadal changes in the South Pacific western boundary current system revealed in observations and reanalysis state estimates" Greg Roff: "Planetary wave effects on the general circulation in the ACCESS model" Timothy Cowan: "Late autumn rainfall reduction over southeast Australia - associated dynamics and impacts"
10:00 Laura Ciasto: "Observational evidence of reemergence in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere" Klaus Fraedrich: "Zonal-flow regime changes in a GCM and in a simple quasi-geostrophic model: the role of stratospheric dynamics" Sam Dean: "The effect of local circulation variability on the detection and attribution of New Zealand temperature trends"
10:15   David Thompson: "Understanding the impact of ozone depletion and increasing greenhouse gases on the Southern Hemisphere stormtrack" Joanna Burston: "Stochastic model of extreme coastal water levels, NSW, Australia"
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea Break

11:00 - 12:00 Morning Session II
  Pacific Islands Science Earth System Science Regional
  Chair: Roger Francey
Auditorium		 Chair: Leon Rotstayn
Room 1		 Chair: Pandora Hope
Rooms 2 & 3
11:00 Savin Chand: "Interannual variability of tropical cyclone genesis positions and tracks over the Fiji region" Andrew Klekociuk: "The influence of small-scale wave processes on polar stratospheric clouds and stratospheric ozone depletion" Ramasamy Suppiah: "Observed and projected changes in the climate of the tropical rainforest region of northern Queensland"
11:15 Howard Diamond: "A consolidated tropical cyclone database for the southern hemisphere as an integral part of the international best tracks archive for climate stewardship" Roger Dargaville: "Stratospheric ozone variability and the climate of southern Australia" Janice Lough: "A changing climate for Australia's coral reefs"
11:30 Neil White: "Extracting optimum value from the SPSLCMP sea-level data: Combining tide-gauge and satellite altimeter data" William Neff: "Decadal Tropospheric circulation trends & variability and potential impact on surface chemistry exchange over.."  
11:45 John Hunter: "Flooding of a Pacific atoll island: diagnosing the problem" Jose Marengo: "Tipping points in climate modeling: Risk of Amazon Die-back and the JMA-MRI-GSM0130. 60 km - TL319L60 global climate change projections"  
12:00 - 12:30 Closing Plenary Session
Recognition of Local Organizing Committee and Program Committee Members
  Conference Adjourns