Mike Blackburn NCAS-Climate, University of Reading

SEASONAL CLIMATE DISCUSSIONS

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WMO Annual Climate Statements WMO Status of Climate. Reports for recent years:   2010   2009

BAMS State of the Climate reports Annual reports archived at NCDC.

NOAA Climate Attribution NOAA's Climate Attribution team at ESRL.

NORTHERN WINTER 2011/2012 (Discussion on 02/04/2012)

Mike Blackburn	Overview, tropospheric circulation		Tropopause(Jan 13-20)     Tropopause(Jan 20-27)     Tropopause(Jan27-Feb03)
Nick Klingaman	Australian summer monsoon
Andrew Charlton-Perez	Stratosphere
John Methven	North Atlantic storms
Ben Lloyd-Hughes	European drought
Fernando Prates	ECMWF forecasts
Jeff Knight	Met Office forecasts

NORTHERN WINTER 2010/2011 (Discussion on 15/04/2011)

Mike Blackburn	Overview, tropospheric circulation
Nick Klingaman	Australian summer season
Andrew Charlton-Perez	Stratosphere
Tim Woollings	Blocking, solar activity, sea-ice
Linus Magnusson	ECMWF forecasts
Jeff Knight	Met Office forecasts

NORTHERN SUMMER 2010 (Discussion on 26/11/2010)

Mike Blackburn	Northern Extratropics		Tropopause(1)     Tropopause(2)
Thomas Toniazzo	Tropical Pacific
Andy Turner	Asian Monsoon		Monsoon depression
Tim Hewson	ECMWF - Pakistan Floods
Nick Klingaman	Australia
Ros Cornforth	West African Monsoon

NORTHERN WINTER 2009/2010 (Discussion on 14/04/2010)

Mike Blackburn	Overview		Tropopause(Dec:1)     Tropopause(Dec:2)     Tropopause(Dec:3)
Thomas Toniazzo	El Niño
Nick Klingaman	Australia
Mike Blackburn	Negative NAO/AO - possible factors
Tim Woollings	Blocking, solar forcing
Chris Bell	Stratosphere
Thomas Jung	ECMWF forecasts
Mike Blackburn	Met Office forecasts

Mike Blackburn   04 April 2012 NCAS-Climate Department of Meteorology University of Reading PO Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB, UK