Chairs: Vadlamani S.N Murty, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), National Institute of Oceanography Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam, India and Saji N Hameed, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan
Primary Conveners: Subrahmanyam Bulusu, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States
Co-conveners: Tommy Jensen, Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Saji N Hameed, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan
Weakly Penetrative Mixing in the Surface Layer of the Bay of Bengal
Iossif Lozovatsky, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, S.U.P. Jinadasa, National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agenc, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Andrew Lucas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Jennifer A MacKinnon, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Harindra Joseph Fernando, Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Hemantha W Wijesekera, Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Surface circulation and upwelling patterns around Sri Lanka and formation of the Sri Lanka Dome
Charitha B Pattiaratchi1, Sarath Wijeratne1 and Asha De Vos1,2, (1)The University of Western Australia, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering and The UWA Oceans Institute, Nedlands, Australia, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Coastal Conservation Action Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Potential Predictability of the Sea-Surface Temperature Forced Equatorial East Africa Short Rains Interannual Variability in the 20th Century
Titike Kassa Bahaga, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Earth Physics Section, Trieste, Italy and Addis Ababa University, Department of Physics, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Gizaw Gizaw, Addis Ababa University, Department of Physics, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Fred Kucharski, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Earth Physics Section, Trieste, Italy and Gulilat Tefera Diro, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
Comparison of Statistical Downscaling Methods for Seasonal Precipitation Prediction: An Application Toward a Fire and Haze Early Warning System for Southeast Asia
Jaepil Cho1, Hyojin Lee1, Eunjeong Lee1, Robert D Field2, Saji N Hameed3, Kwan Kok Foo4, Israr Albar5 and Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan6, (1)APEC Climate Center, Busan, South Korea, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, (4)Malaysia Meteorological Department, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, (5)Department of Forestry, Jakarta, Indonesia, (6)Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, Jakarta, Indonesia