Program — Wednesday

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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Wednesday 13 October

8:00 am	Registration desk open
8:55 am	Plenary session Call to order and housekeeping Welcome to country Verna Nichols, member of the Aboriginal Community in Hobart Welcome to the Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum 2010 Official opening His Excellency The Honourable Peter Underwood AC, Governor of Tasmania Welcome from the Bureau of Meteorology Ray Canterford, Deputy Director (Services), Bureau of Meteorology Welcome from ACE CRC Tony Press, CEO, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC Climate change: Communicating science in a political minefield Will Steffen The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station Sam Cleland Drought impacts and adaptation in regional Victoria, Australia Anthony Kiem Redmap: Citizen science as an engagement and communication tool in a warming world Stewart Frusher
10:50 am	Morning tea
11:20 am	Large-scale influences on local climate Wave trains of the Indian Ocean Dipole and their relationship to southern Australian rainfall Peter van Rensch Tropical-extratropical links with Australian extreme weather events Suppiah Ramasamy A synoptic climatology of growing season rainfall in the Central Wheat Belt of Western Australia Mike Pook Extreme daily rainfalls in New Zealand: links to synoptic weather types. Georgina Griffiths Climatology of mid-latitude maritime cyclones affecting the east coast of Australia Stuart Browning South west Western Australia summer temperature cooling trend Pandora Hope Equatorial Atlantic cold tongue in association with African rainfall Hanh Nguyen	Evaluating climate model performance Amplification of ENSO-related natural rainfall variability due to Australian dust Leon Rotstayn Linkages of El Nino – Southern Oscillation, the Indian Ocean Dipole, and the Southern Annular Mode in CMIP3 models Arnold Sullivan Why model drift is complicating the true global warming signal Les Muir Pattern matching technique for use in GCM model evaluation and climate change projections of rainfall Aurel Moise Indices of tropical cyclone activity in IPCC-AR4 models for present and future climate Mohar Chattopadhyay	The Pacific in a variable and changing climate Improving understanding of climate in Pacific Island nations through the Pacific Climate Change Science Program: research and capacity building Brad Murphy Data in support of climate change adaptation in the Pacific William Wright Pacific Adaptation Strategy Assistant Program: Climate prediction capacities strengthened in National Meteorological Services Andrew Charles Seasonal forecasts using the POAMA model for Pacific Island countries in the Southwest Pacific Andrew Cottrill Improving the understanding of tropical cyclone climatology: the development of a tropical cyclone data portal Andrew Dowdy The extratropical Southern Ocean mixed layer heat budget associated with ENSO Laura Ciasto	Biological systems in a changing climate Climate change driven pressures on food security: an application of the Global Integrated Assessment Model (GIAM) Don Gunasekera Impacts of climate change on agriculture in Tasmania using dynamically downscaled fine-resolution climate projections Greg Holz Climate change and the Little Penguin: impacts and adaptation options Lynda Chambers Trends in remotely sensed chlorophyll concentration in Tasmanian coastal waters Karen Wild-Allen Impact of climate extreme on birds in WA Yanhui Blockley Modelling responses of perennial ryegrass pastures to future climate scenarios in Tasmania David Phelan Using spatial layers to inform climate change adaptation approaches for Tasmania's natural systems Felicity Faulkner
1:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Change in large-scale climate systems Changes in Southern Hemisphere climate and weather systems during the 20th century Jorgen Frederiksen Projected changes in large-scale Southern Hemisphere circulation variability Simon Grainger Trends in the zonal asymmetry of Antarctic total column ozone Andrew Klekociuk On the persistence of cold season extratropical SST anomalies associated with the annular modes Laura Ciasto	Talking climate Using the Farm Carbon Story approach to help farmers understand and take ownership of their farm carbon cycles. Rachel Brown Insights for communicating climate - a survey of 1500 farmers Graeme Anderson Communicating weather and climate to the public using philately Howard Bridgman Talking climate change with the bush Clare Mullen Multi-disciplinary collaboration on locusts in Victoria Belinda Campbell Contextualising climate variability and projected change for the NSW dairy industry Michael Cashen	Observational datasets Improved climate data and monitoring for Western Australia to support the understanding of past, present and future climate Marco Marinelli Surface humidity variability over Australia Christopher Lucas A high-quality monthly total cloud amount dataset for Australia Branislava Jovanovic Remote sensing of Australian snow cover: a 10 year spatial dataset Kathryn Bormann The what, where, who and how of climate & ocean data Grant Beard A review of Bureau of Meteorology daily reference evapotranspiration calculations Claire Webb	Wind and other risks in a changing climate Increases in severe thunderstorm indices in future climate regimes Chris Thomas Severe wind hazard determined from two IPCC scenarios and five models Augusto Sanabria Broad brush spatial approach to assess site specific gust wind speed for Australian communities Babu Divi Wind risk map of the Australian region: early results Bob Cechet
3:20 pm	Afternoon tea
3:50 pm	Plenary session Climate Futures for Tasmania: consequences of climate change for Tasmania Nathan Bindoff
4:35 pm	Dynamical downscaling of climate projections Regional climate modelling techniques: impacts on regional climate change Jack Katzfey Using bias-adjustment to improve the use of high-resolution climate model output Stuart Corney Projected future wind-wave climate along Australia's eastern margin Mark Hemer	Modelling the oceans Evaluation of the Australian Climate Ocean Model (AusCOM) in the tropical oceans Xiaobing Zhou The response of the Southern Ocean overturning to past and future climate change Adele Morrison Fifty years of water cycle change expressed in ocean salinity Paul Durack	Ice core records Abrupt changes in microparticle concentration and grainsize in snow accumulation during the last deglaciation on Law Dome, East Antarctica Barbara Frankel Ice core records of the last deglaciation: north-south climate and atmospheric CO₂ Joel Pedro High resolution climate proxy records from Australian Antarctic ice core research Mark Curran	Three wise scientists
5:35 pm	End of day's sessions
6:30 pm	Icebreaker reception CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Castray Esplanade