“Edward S. Sarachik is Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. He has been an active contributor to research on tropical meteorology, tropical oceanography and coupled interactions in the tropics. He has also worked on other problems of oceanography, in particular the global thermohaline circulation. Dr. Sarachik has served on nineteen National Research Council committees, chairing two, in particular the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Panel. He worked to found the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and has chaired IRI advisory committees since its inception. Until his retirement, he co-directed the Center for Science in the Earth System at the University of Washington, a center devoted to the dynamics of climate variability and change and the impacts of such variability and change on the ecology, built environment and people of the Pacific Northwest of the USA. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.†(from Sarachik and Cane, 2010). Beyond the several publications, recently, Dr. Edward Sarachik and Dr. Mark Cane have published “The El Niño-Southern Oscillation Phenomenonâ€, a book where the main points of this coupled ocean-atmosphere event are explored, such as the observational basis, atmospheric and oceanic processes, evolved mechanisms and many aspects of its prediction.
Day 1 - Monday - 23 August
Morning - Preview 1
The Tropical Pacific
ENSO Observing System
The Climatology of SST, Precipitation, Winds, Heat Flux
The Phases of ENSO
ENSO as an atmosphere-ocean phenomena
Mechanisms
Prediction
Uses of the Future
Afternoon - Preview 2O
Theories of ENSO
Day 2 - Tuesday - 24 August
Morning - Preview 3
Predicting ENSO
Using the Predictions
Afternoon - Atmospheric Processes Relevant to ENSO
How surface winds are forced
Day 3 - wednesday - 25 August
Ocean Processes relevant to ENSO/p>
The processes that change SST
Mixed Layers, Thermocline depth
Afternoon
Teleconnections associated with ENSO
Impacts of ENSO - climate variations throughout the Globe
Modeling ENSO
Global coupled general circulation models (GCMs) and ENSO