Oral and Poster Presentations at the CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, May 31 to June 4th, 2009

• Bakalian, F., H. Ritchie, K. Thompson, and W.H. Merryfield. Redundancy analyses of the coupled atmosphere-ocean system: application to state-space models and global climate data.

• Balmaseda, M., L. Ferranti, F. Molteni. Impact of recent Artic ice anomalies on the North-Atlantic Summers.

• Demirov, E., J.-M. Brankart, C. Pike-Thackray, 2009: Assessment of the model error in Labrador Sea eddy permitting ocean simulations. CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, 31 May to 4 June, 2009.

• Donohue, S.M., M. Stacey and J. Shore, 2009: Simulation of the Mixed-Layer Depth in the North East Pacific. CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, 31 May to 4 June, 2009.

• Donohue, S.M., M. Stacey and J. Shore, 2009: Simulation of the 2001-2002 Intrusion of Cold Water into the Gulf of Alaska. CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, 31 May to 4 June, 2009.

• Drewitt, G., A. Berg, S. Kharin, W-S. Lee, G. Boer, W. Merryfield. The role of soil moisture initialization in seasonal forecasting.

• Dupont, F. Lu, Y., Wright, D., Wang Z. Heat and wind effects on Arctic sea-ice.

• Finnis, J., W. Hsieh, W.J. Merryfield and H. Lin, 2009: Nonlinear Post-Processing of Dynamical Seasonal Climate Forecasts. Poster. CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, 31 May to 4 June, 2009

• Higginson, S., K. Thompson, Y. Liu. Estimating climatologies for the Argo period: Dealing with noise due to mesoscale variability.

• Liu, Y., K. Thompson, S. Desjardins, S. Higginson. Forecasting Mesoscale Variability of the North Atlantic: Towards an Operational System.

• Lu, Y., Z. Wang, D. Wright and F. Dupont. Inter-annual and decadal sea level variations: a CONCEPTS study based on a coarse-resolution global ocean model.

• Merryfield W., W-S. Lee, G. Boer, G. Flato, S. Kharin, J. Scinocca, Y. Tang, A. Berg and G. Drewitt. Seasonal forecast development at CCCma: Toward the second Coupled Historical Forecasting Project (CHFP2).

• Oliver, E. and K. Thompson. The Madden-Julian Oscillation and Local and Remote Forcing of the Ocean.

• Pike-Thackray, C, E. Demirov, J. Zhu. Uncertainty and predictive skills in model simulations of the Labrador Sea with an eddy permitting circulation model.

• Ravindran, A., 2009: Increasing trend of synoptic activity and its relationship with extreme rain events over central India. CMOS Congress, Halifax NS, 31 May to 4 June, 2009

• Roy, F., Y. Lu, J-M Bélanger, and H. Ritchie. Validation and analysis if the ¼-deg global NEMO-CONCEPTS ocean model.

• Shao, Y and M. Stacey, 2009: Simulating the North Pacific Ocean using NEMO. CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, 31 May to 4 June, 2009.

• Skachko, S., P. Gauthier, and J-M. Bélanger. Parameter Estimation for Data Assimilation with a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System. Poster presentation.

• Urrego-Blanco, J., and J. Sheng, 2009: Developing a nested-grid circulation model for the eastern Canadian Shelf. CMOS Congress, Halifax NS, 31 May to 4 June, 2009

• Wang, Z., Wright, D., Lu, Y. and Dupont, F. A model study of North Atlantic SSH and SST variability with indications of variations in the strength of the subpolar and subtropical gyres.

• Wakamatsu, T. and M.G.G. Foreman. Observability of a large control vector in a 4D-Var ocean data assimilation.

• Zhang, X., Y. Lu, K. Thompson, J. Jing and H. Ritchie. A modelling study of the responses to MJO wind forcing in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

• Zhu J., and E. Demirov. Model study of the Labrador Sea Water formation and spreading.