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Description:
A Symposium to be held as a part of the 81st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting:
Every year our nation seems to experience more weather extremes and record heat. Is this the impact of global warming or just the effects of natural climate variability? Have we experienced such extremes in
the past? What are the societal impacts of climate variability? Can some of this variability be forecast,
and if so, how can this information be used to mitigate the impacts of weather-related natural disasters
and to derive economic and social benefits? The past few decades have seen an explosion of research in
a variety of fields into these topics, and answers to some of these questions are slowly coming into
view. The ocean plays a central role in producing climate variations and enabling seasonal and
longer-term forecasts. This variability also has strong impacts on marine ecosystems and in the coastal
zone where much of our population has moved in recent years. The past decades of research have led to
routine seasonal forecasts that are primarily based on an understanding of the El Niņo-Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) phenomena. What will the future hold? One can anticipate that only the surface has
been scratched in terms of using this technology and understanding in diverse applications and in
continued improvements to the forecasting capability.
This multidisciplinary symposium focuses on many of the questions raised in the previous paragraph. It is organized around invited and solicited papers with extensive use of poster sessions for recent research results.
Date received: December 05, 2000
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