Conveners
General Description
Conference Objectives
Preliminary Topics
Program Committee NAO Registration Form (pdf format)
Additional Information
     NAO Website

Conveners

James W. Hurrell, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
tele: +1-303-497-1383; e-mail: jhurrell@ucar.edu

Yochanan Kushnir, LDGO, Columbia University, Palisades, New York
tele: +1-914-365-8669; e-mail: kushnir@ldeo.columbia.edu

Martin Visbeck, LDEO, Columbia University, Palisades, New York
tele: +1-914-365-8531; e-mail: visbeck@ldeo.columbia.edu
 

General Description 
This conference will bring together atmospheric scientists, oceanographers and paleoclimatologists with interests in interannual to multidecadal climate variability and its predictability and scientists who study the socio-economic impacts of climate variability. The focus will be on the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which is a poorly understood yet dominant pattern of atmospheric circulation variability.
 

Conference Objectives

• the seasonal to decadal variability in the North Atlantic atmosphere, especially the NAO, and the response of the ocean to this variability; 

• the sensitivity of the atmosphere to changes in the underlying sea surface temperature and sea ice distribution in the middle and high latitudes; 

• the pathways by which the climate variability in the tropical Atlantic affects the climate variability in the North Atlantic, and vice versa; 

• the extent to which climate variability in the stratosphere is linked to tropospheric variations over the North Atlantic and Arctic; 

• the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and decadal climate variations such as those associated with the NAO; 
• the degree to which paleoclimate data can extend the instrumental records over the Atlantic basin; and

• the extent to which seasonal-to-decadal NAO fluctuations are predictable. 
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• Ocean, land, sea-ice response to the NAO 

• Global Climate Change and the NAO
• Atmospheric processes 

• Coupled ocean-land-sea ice-atmosphere processes 

• Pre-instrumental Records of the NAO

• Impacts of the NAO 

• Predictability 

Program Committee

Christof Appenzeller, University of Bern, Bern Switzerland

Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, Washington

Thomas L. Delworth, GFDL/NOAA, Princeton, New Jersey

Clara Deser, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado

Ken F. Drinkwater, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hans-F. Graf, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

Peter J. Lamb, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

John Marshall, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Michael McCartney, WHOI, Woods Hole Massachusetts

Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University, New York, New York

David B. Stephenson, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Rowan Sutton, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
 

Additional Information
 

For information on the scientific program contact one of the meeting conveners listed above. Contact the AGU meetings department at +1202-777-7332 to be placed on a mailing list to receive general information.
 

NAO Website

Here is the North Atlantic Oscillation website maintained by one of the Chapman Conference conveners at LDEO.

Click http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/NAO. Once at the website, click on the left column's red button for updated Chapman conference program and related information.
 

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