The IV International Conference on ENSO will be organized in 6 plenary sessions, related poster sessions and an International Exhibition. The specialized sessions will emphasize the following topics:
| Keynote and invited Speakers for the ENSO conference | ||
|---|---|---|
| Session | Session | Title |
| 1: ENSO observations, including analysis of recent events |
Michael McPhaden | The 2015-16 El Niño and Climate Change |
| Kim Cobb | Advances in paleo-ENSO: A past to future perspective | |
| Magdalena Balmaseda | ENSO complexity: A monitoring and forecasting perspective | |
| Shineng Hu | El Niño diversity, cross-equatorial winds, and the intertropical convergence zone | |
| 2: ENSO dynamics | Ken Takahashi | El Niño in the far-eastern Pacific: Concepts, impacts and dynamics |
| Shayne McGregor | Understanding the Warm Water Volume precursor of ENSO events and its relationship with event predictability | |
| Christina Karamperidou | A hierarchy of models for ENSO diversity in past, present and future | |
| Sulian Thual | A stochastic skeleton model for the MJO and ENSO | |
| 3: ENSO and other modes of climate variability (intraseasonal, decadal, centennial) |
Matthieu Lengaigne | The role of intraseasonal variability in ENSO |
| Antonietta Capotondi | Decadal Variability of ENSO | |
| Scott Power | The impact of global warming on ENSO is clearer now than ever before | |
| Yuko Okumura | Decadal modulation of ENSO and the linkage to tropical Pacific decadal variability | |
| Aaron Levine | Atlantic Impacts on Multi-decadal ENSO diversity and Amplitude Variability | |
| Martin Puy | Knowledge of glacial ENSO could inform of changes in extreme El Niño frequency in the future | |
| 4: ENSO modeling and prediction | Andrew Wittenberg | ENSO in climate models: Progress and opportunities |
| Eric Guilyardi | Understanding ENSO processes in climate models: The role of the atmosphere | |
| Michelle L'Heureux | A Bird's Eye View of Operational ENSO Prediction: Methods, Challenges, and Paths Forward | |
| Sarah Larson | Does the equatorial recharge/discharge increase ENSO predictability? | |
| 5: ENSO impacts and Regional processes |
Boris Dewitte | Air-sea interactions off Peru and Ecuador and the development of Eastern Pacific El Nino events |
| Jose Marengo | Socio-climatic impacts of El Nino in Tropical South America East of the Andes | |
| Samantha Stevenson | Extreme El Nino events and 21st century climate change | |
| 6: Climate information and sustainable development, and the future of climate and ocean science |
Rodney Martinez | Keeping climate science fundable: Challenges and opportunities of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development |
| Jose Santos | Towards an ENSO Early Warning System in Ecuador: Lessons learned | |
| Session | Title |
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|---|---|---|---|
| I | ENSO observations, including analysis of recent events. | ||
| II | ENSO dynamics | ||
| III | ENSO and other modes of climate variability (intraseasonal, decadal, centennial) | ||
| IV | ENSO modeling and prediction | ||
| V | ENSO impacts and Regional processes | ||
| IV | Climate Information and sustainable development and future of climate and ocean science. | ||
| Poster sessions will be organized corresponding to each plenary session. | |||