Program — Friday

prepared on 8 Oct 2010

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Most presentations are 15 minutes long, with an extra 5 minutes for questions. Lightning lectures, indicated by a yellow margin are 5 minutes long
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Friday 15 October

8:30 am	Registration desk open
8:55 am	Plenary session Call to order and housekeeping Climate change: Decision making at the crossroads Jim Salinger
9:50 am	Rainfall and rivers in a changing climate Using bias-adjusted, dynamically downscaled global climate model projections directly in hydrological models to project future runoff: a case-study from Tasmania. James Bennett A flexible approach for integrating climate change data with changes in human impact on river systems Fiona Ling Translating climate projections into usable information for business – a case study from Tasmania Katherine Brown Interactions between large-scale modes of climate and their relationship with Australian climate and hydrology Kirien Whan Investigation into the relationships between large-scale climate drivers and MDB rainfall Michelle Ho	POAMA: Australia's dynamical seasonal prediction system Wind gustiness impact on ENSO characteristics in the POAMA coupled model Guomin Wang The Southern Annular Mode and its Influence on Australian intra-seasonal climate in POAMA Andrew Marshall Intraseasonal forecasting of the 2009 Australian heat waves using POAMA Debra Hudson	Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere Slowing CO₂ growth in the global atmosphere Roger Francey The meteorological controls on carbon dioxide flux between a lake and the atmosphere. Michael Gray Remote sensing of atmospheric composition in Australia Clare Paton-Walsh	Phenology & dendroclimatology ClimateWatch – Australia's national phenological network Lynda Chambers Growing season duration and growth responses to environmental conditions in long-lived Tasmanian conifers David Drew A 700-year record of extreme events from a multi-species network of tree-ring chronologies in south eastern Australia Kathryn Allen
10:50 am	Morning tea
11:20 am	Living in Australia's future climate Working in the heat: climate change challenges for Australia Elizabeth Hanna Extreme precipitation events in a changing climate using regional dynamically-downscaled climate projections Christopher White Drought frequency and duration projections for south-east Queensland David Kent The analysis of infrastructure asset susceptibility using high resolution climate projection modelling Sven Rand The economic resilience and adaptability of the Tasmanian rock lobster fishery to climate change Ingrid van Putten	Applying POAMA Analogue downscaling of seasonal rainfall forecasts for downstream applications Andrew Charles Real-time verification of POAMA seasonal forecasts for Australian rainfall and temperature Robert Fawcett Ocean data assimilation in the Australian dynamical seasonal prediction system - POAMA Yonghong Yin Impact of new ocean initial conditions on seasonal forecasts with the POAMA coupled model Maggie Zhao Calibration of probabilistic ensemble rainfall forecasts for reliable seasonal prediction Andrew Charles Impact of correcting mean SST bias in POAMA on prediction of different flavours of ENSO and its teleconnection on Australian rainfall Eun-Pa Lim	Monitoring climate in and around Antarctica Spatial statistics: the key to Antarctic temperature reconstructions? Jack Coggins High-quality monthly climate data for Australia's Antarctic and remote island weather stations Branislava Jovanovic Estimation of surface heat and salt fluxes associated with sea ice growth and melt in the Southern Ocean Takeshi Tamura Climate variability induced by foehn winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica Johanna Speirs Wind observations at Macquarie Island: a history of changes Melanie Webb Competing katabatic forces into the Amery Ice Shelf Scott Carpentier Forecasting cloud base and depth from numerical weather prediction systems Mana Inoue	Ocean dynamics The force balance of a wind-driven current in a Southern Ocean-like channel model Marshall Ward What is driving the fast warming rate of the Southern Hemisphere midlatitude ocean? Tim Cowan A record-high ocean bottom pressure signal in the South Pacific observed by GRACE Carmen Boening Record warming in the South Pacific and western Antarctica associated with the 2009-10 El Niño Tong Lee Immersed boundary methods for the representation of coastlines in high-resolution numerical models of the Southern Ocean Christopher Chapman
1:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Plenary session Climate Change, the IPCC, and the media Neville Nicholls Announcement of prizes for best student presentations Closing
2:55 pm	Forum farewell Food, friends and refreshments to see you on your way