| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences |
| Session Title | Understanding Climate Change and Variability Using State of the Art Climate Models |
| Main Convener | Dr. Alexander Sen Gupta (University of New South Wales, Australia) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Agus Santoso (University of New South Wales, Australia) Dr. Andréa S. Taschetto (University of New South Wales, Australia) Prof. Soon-Il An (Yonsei University, Korea, South) Prof. Saji Hameed (University of Aizu, Japan) Dr. M. K. Roxy (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India) Prof. Raghu Murtugudde (University of Maryland, United States) Prof. Pascal Terray (Laboratoire d’Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), France) Dr. Ashok Karumuri (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India) |
| Session Description | Output from the latest generation of climate models taking part in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) offers an unprecedented resource to help us understand the ocean and broader climate system and how and why it changes over a range of timescales. New insights are emerging regarding the dynamics and impacts of interannual climate variability (and how this might change in the future), causes for decadal climate variability (e.g. reasons for the recent surface warming hiatus), climate predictability on multi-year timescales and the drivers of long-term forced changes. This session invites contributions from researchers using the CMIP5 models to understand the workings of the climate system and to assess model performance in this respect. |