INDO-PACIFIC CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY

Longstanding and New Modes of Indo-Pacific Climate Variations (Toshio Yamagata, Yushi Morioka and Swadhin Behera); Ocean Processes Relevant to Climate Variations in the Indian Sector (Yukio Masumoto, Motoki Nagura, Shang-Pin Xie, P N Vinayachandran, Toru Miyama, Zuojun Yu, Julian P Mccreary, Jr, Raleigh R Hood and Hezi Gildor); Current Status of Intraseasonal-Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction of the Indo-Pacific Climate (Jing-Jia Luo, June-Yi Lee, Chaoxia Yuan, Wataru Sasaki, Sebastian Masson, Swadhin Behera, Yukio Masumoto and Toshio Yamagata); Energetics of the Global Ocean: The Role of Mesoscale Eddies (Hidenori Aiki, Xiaoming Zhai and Richard J Greatbatch); Parameterization of the Ocean Mixed Layer and Its Influence on the OGCM (Yign Noh); Western Pacific and Marginal Sea Processes (Tangdong Qu, Tomoki Tozuka, Shinichiro Kida, Xinyu Guo, Yasumasa Miyazawa and Qinyu Liu); Air-Sea Interaction Over the Western Boundary Currents in the Western North Pacific (Shoshiro Minobe, Bo Qiu, Masami Nonaka and Hisashi Nakamura); An Overview of Coupled GCM Biases in the Tropics (Ingo Richter, Ping Chang, Zhao Xu, Takeshi Doi, Takahito Kataoka, Motoki Nagura, Pascal Oettli, Simon De Szoeke and Tomoki Tozuka); Dynamical Downscaling of Seasonal Climate in Southern Africa(J Venkata Ratnam, Satyaban B Ratna, Swadhin K Behera, C J Dew Rautenbach Keiko Takakashi and Toshio Yamagata); Characterizing the Reliability of Global Crop Prediction Based on Seasonal Climate Forecasts (Toshichika Iizumi, Hirofumi Sakuma, Masayuki Yokozawa, Jing-Jia Luo, Andrew J Challinor, Gen Sakurai and Toshio Yamagata); Weathering Global Climate Change (Antonio Navarra and George Philander);