The tenth IMSC, Beijing, China, 2007 - International Meetings on ...

Invited Session: Spatial patterns of climate ......................................................................................1
Reduced Space Approach to Objective Analyses of Historical Climate Data Sets: Progress
and Problems.............................................................................................................................1
Speaker: Alexey Kaplan....................................................................................................1
Challenges of regional climate modeling and validation ..........................................................1
Speaker: Douglas Nychka.................................................................................................1
Precipitation Extremes and Spatial Statistics ............................................................................2
Speaker: Richard L. Smith ................................................................................................2
Invited Session: Probabilistic estimates of climate sensitivity and other climate system parameters
..........................................................................................................................................................2
New Diagnostics and Comparisons for Estimates of Climate System Properties from Climate
Observations..............................................................................................................................2
Speaker: Chris E. Forest....................................................................................................2
Quantification of uncertainty in global temperature projections over the twenty-first century:
A synthesis of multiple models and methods............................................................................3
Speaker: Reto Knutti.........................................................................................................3
Coherent treatment of model error and its implications for climate sensitivity ........................4
Speaker: Daithi Stone........................................................................................................4
Invited Session: Seasonal to Decadal Forecast .................................................................................5
Slow Modes of Climate Variability and Seasonal Prediction....................................................5
Speaker: Carsten S. Frederiksen........................................................................................5
Statistical Methods in CPC Climate Forecast ...........................................................................6
Speaker: Peitao Peng.........................................................................................................6
Establishing non-trivial Skill in Seasonal Probability Forecasts: <strong>The</strong> Rise and Fall of
Strawmen ..................................................................................................................................6
Speaker: Leonard Smith....................................................................................................6
Invited Session: Climate Reconstruction ..........................................................................................7
Significant noise........................................................................................................................7
Speaker: G: Bürger............................................................................................................7
Reconstruction Fidelity in Truncated EOF and RegEM Climate Field Reconstruction
Methods.....................................................................................................................................8
Speaker: Eugene R. Wahl..................................................................................................8
Evaluation of millennial proxy reconstruction methods ...........................................................8
Speaker: Francis Zwiers....................................................................................................8
Invited Session:.................................................................................................................................9
<strong>The</strong> Quasi-Biennial Oscillation with a Meridional Tripole Pattern Distribution in the
Interannual Variability and Anomaly of Asian Summer Monsoon over East Asia....................9
Speaker: Huang Ronghui ..................................................................................................9
Evidences and Modeling Study of Droughts in <strong>China</strong> during 4-2kaBP..................................10
Speaker: Wang Shaowu...................................................................................................10
Climate and Infectious Disease: New Challenges and Opportunities .....................................11
Speaker: Mark L. Wilson ................................................................................................11
Invited Session: Climate Extremes .................................................................................................11
Spatial characterization of extreme meteorological events; climate and weather effects .......11
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