1. Shang-Ping Xie, Dept of Meteorology & IPRC Research interest: Climate variability and change, Ocean’s role in climate Major funding sources: NASA, NOAA & NSF Major collaborators: US: JPL, Univ Maryland, Oregon State Univ, NCAR, NOAA/GFDL, PMEL, ESRL & AOML Japan: JAMSTEC, Univ Tokyo, Hokkaido Univ, Tsukuba Univ, Tokyo Univ Marine Sci & Tech China: Ocean Univ of China, Chinese Academy of Sci, Nanjing Inst Meteorology Germany: Univ Kiel

2. Research highlights Global warming dynamics Satellite observations Climate modeling Regional climate  growing needs for dynamical approach

3. Trend/interannual  Tropical Indian Ocean: Canary of the Global Warming?! Yan Du and Shang-Ping Xie (IPRC/UH Met) The tropical Indian Ocean emerges as a region of the most robust warming of the global ocean, a trend captured by all IPCC AR4 models. Indian Ocean temp in AR4 models

4. Frequency of QuikSCAT high winds (>20 m/s; color = % of time) and SST (°C; contours) during winter months (DJF). Mapping High Sea Winds from Space T. Sampe and S.-P. Xie (BAMS, 2007 Dec) Satellite Discoveries Vast oceans are poorly observed by in-situ methods

5. OFES captures Kuroshio Extension’s decadal oscillation B Taguchi 1,2, S-P Xie 1, N Schneider 1, M Nonaka 2, H Sasaki 2, Y Sasai 2 1. IPRC/UH Met; 2. JAMSTEC (FRCGC & ESC) Satellite Altimeter (T/P) OFES Ocean GCM for Earth Simulator (0.1 o x 0.1 o, 54 levels) The advent of satellite altimetry and the Earth Simulator made it possible to study variability of narrow jets like KE for the first time 1993 2004 Satellite Obs and Modeling Synthesis Met student

6. IPRC Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Model (iROAM) on Earth Simulator: S-P Xie, Y Wang, H Xu, S de Szoeke, J Small, K Richards (IPRC), T Miyama, T Mochizuki, T Awaji (FRCGC) iROAM Obs Spin up Precipitation, surface temperature & wind  Full-physics coupled model that successfully keeps the ITCZ north of the equator.  To become portable to other regions for climate downscaling and process studies.

7. Long Cloud Trails Lee of Hawaii: Model and Ship Observations Yang et al. (J Climate); Yang et al. (GRL) Summer Cloud Amount at 1400 HST Surface winds: Pennants, full barbs, and half barbs represent 5, 1, and 0.5 m s-¹, respectively. First in-situ survey on SOEST Student Cruise December 2006 R/V Kilo Moana Surface wind & temperature Regional Climate

8. IOD Basin warming Subtropical WP variability (local vs. remote forcing) El Nino Baiu rain band, Storm tracks (ocean’s role?) Summer stratus deck M aritime C ontinent convection (multi-scale: diurnal, ISV, …) Monsoon Atlantic influence Dynamics of global warming Satellite observation Regional climate Paleoclimate dynamics Looking into the future

9. Visiting Students Program with Japanese Universities  Hokkaido University President Initiative: $10,000 for FY 2007.  Team up with MEXT’s Centers of Excellence (two Hokkaido-supported students visited already)  JAMSTEC support; explore JSPS/NSF in the future  Dual (master’s) degree program