INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORKSHOP
ON THE SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONE
Sponsored by Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP)
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Government of Samoa
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
French Embassy in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Endorsed by the World Climate Research Programme on Climate Variability
and Predictability International Pacific Implementation Panel
PROGRAM
Monday 23 August, 2010
Participants arrive
18.00-20.00
Icebreaker at Aggie Grey’s Hotel
Day 1 – Tuesday 24 August, 2010
09.00
Welcome and opening
Chair: Mulipola Ausetalia Titimaea,
Assistant Chief Executive Officer;
Meteorology Division, Ministry of
Natural Resources and Environment
(MNRE)
09.00
Prayer
Rev Elder Eteuati Pasia
09.10
Opening comments
David Sheppard, SPREP
09.20
Opening comments
Scott Power, PCCSP
09.25
Keynote address
09.45
Introduction to workshop and participants
Taulealeausumai Laavasa Malua, Chief
Executive Officer, MNRE
Scott Power, PCCSP
10.00
Morning tea
10.30
Overview of South Pacific climate, and
the South Pacific Convergence Zone
(SPCZ)
Chair: Matthieu Lengaigne, IRD
Scribe: Scott Power
10.30
Overview of the SPCZ
Jim Renwick, NIWA
11.00
Climate, El Niño-Southern Oscillation
(ENSO) and SPCZ in Pacific island countries
including impacts
Pacific island representatives
(i)
Sunny Seuseu, Samoa
Meteorology Division, and
Dean Solofa, SPREP
(ii)
Arona Ngari, Cook Islands
Meteorological Service
(iii)
Arieta Baleisolomone, Fiji
Meteorological Service
(iv)
Lloyd Tahani, Solomon
Islands Meteorological
Service
(v)
Moleni Tu'uholoaki, Tonga
Meteorological Service
(vi)
Hilia Vavae, Tuvalu
Meteorological Service
(vii) Salesa Kaniaha, Vanuatu
Meteorological Service
12.10
Panel discussion
12.30
Lunch
13.30
Origin and variability of the SPCZ and
tropical cyclones
13.30
Meso-scale simulations of tropical cyclones
in the south Pacific: Interannual variability
and oceanic response
14.00
SPCZ influence on southwest Pacific oceanic Alexandre Ganachaud, Laboratoire
circulation: present and future
d'Etudes Géophysiques et
d'Océanographie Spatiales
(LEGOS)/IRD and Alex Sen Gupta,
University of New South Wales –
remotely
14.30
Intra-seasonal variability of the SPCZ and its
role in tropical-extra tropical interaction
15.00
Afternoon tea
15.30
Origin and variability of the SPCZ
(continued)
Chair: Jo Brown, PCCSP
Scribe: Matthieu Lengaigne, IRD
15.30
The SPCZ and decadal climate variability
Jerry Meehl, National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
16.00
Panel discussion
17:00
Day 1 Close
Chair: Axel Timmermann, International
Pacific Research Center (IPRC)
Scribe: Simon McGree, PCCSP
Christophe Menkes, IRD, N. Jourdain,
N., P. Marchesiello, S. Jullien, V. Faure,
J. Lefevre, M. Lengaigne, E. Vincent, J.F. Royer, F. Chauvin
Adrian Matthews, University of East
Anglia (UEA)
Day 2 – Wednesday, 25 August 2010
09.00
Ocean and SPCZ variability/ ENSO
teleconnections
Chair: Drew Lorrey, NIWA
Scribe: Jo Brown, PCCSP
09.00
Sea surface temperature and sea
surface salinity variability during the
last century, separately derived from
corals collected on western and
eastern sides of Fiji Archipelago
Anne Juillet-Leclerc, Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
09.30
Simulation of ENSO-rainfall
teleconnection: does it matter for
rainfall projection?
Wenju Cai, PCCSP
10.00
Interannual variability of the SPCZ in
observations and coupled General
circulation models: Implications for
cyclogenesis
Matthieu Lengaigne, IRD, E. Vincent,
C. Menkes, P. Marchesiello, N.
Jourdain, G. Madec
10.30
Morning tea
11.00
Ocean and SPCZ variability/ENSO
teleconnections (continued)
Chair: Wenju Cai, PCCSP
Scribe: Jim Renwick, NIWA
11.00
Direct extra-tropical forcing (from
both hemispheres) of the SPCZ on
synoptic time scales
George Kiladis, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) –
remotely
11.30
Panel discussion
12.30
Lunch
13.00
Excursion and dinner
13.30
Excursion
18.00
Return from excursion
18.30
Aggie Grey’s for workshop dinner
Day 3 – Thursday 26 August, 2010
09.00
Overview of South Pacific climate,
and the SPCZ (continued)
Chair: Jerry Meehl, NCAR
Scribe: Matthew Widlansky,
Georgia Tech
09:00
Climate, ENSO and SPCZ in Pacific
island countries including impacts
Leilua Mase Akapo Akapo,
American Samoa Meteorological
Service
09.30
SPCZ in climate models
Chair: Jerry Meehl, NCAR
Scribe: Matthew Widlansky,
Georgia Tech
09.30
The SPCZ in CMIP3 coupled model
simulations of 20th century climate
Jo Brown, Scott Power, Francois
Delage, PCCSP
10.00
Validation of the SPCZ using a patternmatching technique
Francois Delage, Aurel Moise,
PCCSP
10.30
Morning tea
11.00
Panel discussion
11.30
Origin and influence of SPCZ
Chair: Jerry Meehl, NCAR
Scribe: Axel Timmermann, IPRC
11.30
A general theory for the spatial and
transient behaviour of the SPCZ
Matthew Widlansky, Peter
Webster (Georgia Tech)
12.00
SPCZ character and variability in
regional station data (title tbc)
Drew Lorrey, NIWA
12:30
Lunch
13.30
Global warming, SPCZ and ENSO
13.30
The effect of global warming on winds,
the SPCZ and regional sea-level
14.00
Global warming, ENSO, the SPCZ and
tropical cyclones
Scott Power, PCCSP
14.30
The SPCZ: Can idealized atmospheric
modelling help us to understand
interactions and feedbacks between
convection and large-scale dynamics?
Gilles Bellon, Meteo-France
15.00
Afternoon tea
15:20
Panel session
16.15
SPCZ review
Scott Power, PCCSP
16.35
Meeting evaluation
Mandy Hopkins, PCCSP
16.45
Closing Remarks
Scott Power, PCCSP and
Matthieu Lengaigne, IRD
17.00
Close
Chair: Adrian Matthews, UEA
Scribe: Jo Brown, PCCSP
Axel Timmermann, IPRC