GENERAL INFORMATION Accommodations The conference participants will be staying at the Corfu Chandris Hotel (B' class), which is located 12 km from the airport, approximately 20 minutes by taxi. Participants are asked to take a taxi from the airport to the conference site (~25 EUR fare) Arrival and Check-in It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in on Sunday after 2:00 PM. Welcome dinner will be serving dinner until 11:00 PM for late arrivals. Breakfast Breakfast will be served at your hotel during the hours scheduled in this program. Conference Venue The Corfu Chandris Conference Center is located at the hotel. Oral Presentations An LCD projector and an overhead projector will be available for the oral presentations. Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive or CD to the conference reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session. The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A. Posters Posters should be mounted Sunday from 5:00 – 8:00 PM, May 31, on the designated boards and dismounted at the end of the meeting. The dimensions of the boards are 90W x 150H cm. Adhesive tape for mounting the posters on the boards will be available at the poster area. Welcome Reception and Banquet Badges are required for admission. City Tour Busses for the city tour will be leaving from the hotel on Wednesday, June 3 at 3:00 p.m. Accompanying persons will also be picked up at the hotel front lobby at that time. Badges are required for participation. Lunches Lunches will be served at the indicated times to all registered participants and registered accompanying persons in the hotel. Badges are required for admission. Dinners Three of the dinners will be served at local Greek Tavernas. Scheduled transportation to these events will be provided by Aegean Conferences. Vegetarian entrees are available only if the request is made in advance of the meeting. Internet, Phone, & Computer Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center and hotel lobby free of charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room. Other Information Animals are not permitted on site. All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking.
Sunday, May 31
5:00 - 8:00 PM		Open Registration
8:00 PM		Welcome Reception/Dinner
Monday, June 1
8:25 AM		Welcome and Opening Remarks
Session I		Chair: James Elsner
8:30 AM	1	Atlantic basin tropical cyclone reconstruction from historical documents M Chenoweth
9:00 AM	2	The tropical cyclone climate model intercomparison project K Walsh, S Lavender, DJ Abbs, L Bengtsson, S Camargo, R Cechet, J Chan, J Elsner, K Emanuel, K Hodges, G Holland, M Huddleston, T Jagger, T Knutson, L Leslie, R McDonald, K McGuffie, H Murakami, K Nguyen, K Oouchi, J-F Royer, M Satoh, S Schubert, E Scoccimarro, M Sugi, Y Takayabu, J Tsutsui, F Vitart, Y Wang, J Yoshimura, and M Zhao
9:30 AM	3	Relationships between tropical cyclone activity and sea surface temperature in the southern hemisphere JL McBride and H Ramsay
10:00 AM	4	Influence of SST anomaly structures on cyclogenesis response to global warming F Chauvin and JF Royer
10:30 AM	5	Environmental parameters controlling the genesis and maintenance of Mediterranean tropical-like storms R Romero, M Tous, C Ramis, and A Genovés
11:00 AM		Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session II		Chair: Thomas Jagger
12:00 Noon	6	The increasing intensity of the strongest hurricanes JB Elsner, JP Kossin, and TH Jagger
12:30 PM	7	Exploring typhoon variability over the Last 6500 years: Evidence of extreme coastal flooding from Kamikoshiki, Japan JD Woodruff, JP Donnelly, and A Okusu
1:00 PM	8	A climate feedback between hurricanes and the wind-driven circulation of the tropical ocean: implications for the pliocene warm period and contemporary climate change AV Fedorov, C Brierley, G Manucharyan, and K Emanuel
1:30 PM	9	Tropical cyclone in a warmer climate: A global cloud-system resolving approach K Oouchi, Y Yamada, M Satoh, H Tomita, A Noda, and W Yanase
2:00 PM		Lunch
8:00 PM		Dinner at a Local Greek Tavern
	The bus for the tavern will depart from the hotel at 7:30 PM
Tuesday, June 2
Session III		Chair: James Kossin
8:30 AM	10	Isolating and explaining the striking hurricane-winter relationship RE Hart
9:00 AM	11	Hurricane activity in a warming climate: It’s all relative B Soden, G Vecchi, and K Swanson
9:30 AM	12	El Niño, tropical atlantic warmth, and hurricanes over the past 1500 years ME Mann, JD Woodruff, JP Donnelly, and Z Zhang
10:00 AM	13	Simulation of hurricanes using a spectral microphysics TC model A Khain, B Lynn, and J Dudhia
10:30 AM	14	Wave accumulation over the tropical North Atlantic in current and future climates J Done, G Holland, and A Suzuki-Parker
11:00 AM		Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session IV		Chair: Robert Hart
12:00 Noon	15	Climate change and extreme weather GJ Holland
12:30 PM	16	Climate signals in hurricane loss data TH Jagger and JB Elsner
1:00 PM	17	Climate modulation of North Atlantic hurricane tracks JP Kossin and SJ Camargo
1:30 PM	18	Deep convection in the tropical area: hector a case study using TRMM data and high resolution model simulation S Gentile, R Ferretti, and FS Marzano
2:00 PM		Lunch
8:00 PM		Dinner at a local Greek Tavern
	The bus for the tavern will depart from the hotel at 7:30 PM
Wednesday, June 3
Session V		Chair: Anastasios Tsonis
8:30 AM	19	Local and remote influences on tropical cyclone activity K Emanuel
9:00 AM	20	Tropical cyclones over the australian region and the impact of climate change SL Lavender and KJE Walsh
9:30 AM	21	Extreme value prediction of typhoon events - models and applications D Liu, L Pang, B Xie, H Jiang, and F Wang
10:00 AM	22	The Willis hurricane index B Owens and G Holland
10:30 AM	23	The multi-decadal variability in the intensity of the Doldrum equatorial through as the major origin of the typhoons over the western north pacific and its probable cause C Liu and Y Liu
11:00 AM		Coffee Break
Session VI		Chair: Richard Murnane
11:30 AM	24	Coarse-grained sand beach ridge plains as long-term records of tropical cyclones J Nott
12:00 Noon	25	Interannual variations of indo-pacific tropical cyclone activity and related socioeconomic disasters C Welker, R Sausen, N Dotzek, and E Faust
12:30 PM	26	Robust scaling behaviour of tropical cyclone energy release A Osso, A Corral, and JE Llebot
1:00 PM	27	Cyclonic precipitation simulated and observed AS Daloz, F Chauvin, and F Roux
1:30 PM		Lunch
3:00 PM		City Tour
The bus for the city tour will depart from the hotel at 3:00 PM
8:00 PM		Dinner at a local Greek Tavern
Thursday, June 4
Session VII		Chair: Greg Holland
8:30 AM	28	Has climate recently shifted? AA Tsonis and KL Swanson
9:00 AM	29	Towards increased utilization of historic hurricane chronologies K Scheitlin, J Malmstadt, R Hodges, J Elsner, and T Jagger
9:30 AM	30	High-latitude forcing of tropical Atlantic meridional mode variations DJ Vimont and D Smirnov
10:00 AM	31	Climate changes and Atlantic hurricane activity C Wang, SK Lee, and DB Enfield
10:30 AM	32	Detecting structural variation in tropical cyclone landfall locations J Rumpf, H Weindl, E Faust, and V Schmidt
11:00 AM		Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session VIII		Chair: Kerry Emanuel
12:00 Noon	33	Climate change and typhoon track-based activity over the Western North Pacific PS Chu and X Zhao
12:30 PM	34	Is there a decreasing trend in the cyclonic storms over north Indian Ocean in a global warming scenario? R Kumar, JT Fasullo, M Rajeevan, AK Babu, and S Sankar
1:00 PM	35	Sea level rise: A key factor in hurricane impacts S Rahmstorf
1:30 PM	36	The role of observational changes on empirical trands in tropical cyclone intensity across the western north pacific MR Lowry, JJ O'Brien, and ML Griffin
2:00 PM		Concluding Remarks
2:15 PM		Lunch
8:00 PM		Gala Dinner at Corfu Chandris Hotel

Friday, June 5
7:30 AM	Breakfast
	Departure

POSTERS
	37	Origin of the interannual variability of tropical cyclones genesis over the South Pacific Ocean NC Jourdain, P Marchesiello, C Menkes, J Lefèvre, E Vincent, M Lengaigne, F Chauvin, and JF Royer
	38	African easterly wave variability under global warming scenarios A Suzuki-Parker, G Holland, J Done, and P Webster
	39	Variability of storm surges induced by typhoon landfalls in Fujian Province, China S Shang and Y Xie
	40	Estimation of the DRAG coefficient from consideration of the ocean’s response to a hurricane SE Zedler, I Hoteit, G Kanschat, and R Korty
	41	Hurricane asymmetry revealed by a decade of spacebased measurements WT Liu and Wg Tang
	42	A data mining investigation of climate change, climate variability, and landfalling hurricanes in the U.S. R Nateghi, S Quiring, and SD Guikema
	43	Typhoon/hurricanes inducing marine phytoplankton blooming and its role in global environment changes DL Tang
	44	LOSSES from tropical cyclones in the USA and multidecadal climate variability E Faust
	45	An analysis of cloud-precipitation, water vapor, and heat budgets during a landfall of severe tropical storm Bilis (2006) D Wang, X Li, WK Tao, and Y Liu
	46	Caribbean sea tropical cyclone occurrences in the last four decades and their impacts in Central America EJ Alfaro and A Quesada
	47	Influence of SST modes on regional tropical cyclone development in the Australian region A Werner, NJ Holbrook, KKW Cheung, and A Maharaj
	48	Interannual variability of TC genesis in the Southern Pacific and its relationship with the SPCZ location EM Vincent, M Lengaigne, CE Menkes, G Madec, F Chauvin, and JF Royer
	49	Testing coral-based tropical cyclone reconstructions: an example from Puerto Rico KH, Kilbourne, RP Moyer, TM Quinn, and AG Grottoli
	50	Tropical cyclone genesis and development experiment with a high resolution global model and a mesoscale model E Shindo
	51	Intensification rates for tropical cyclones in the vicinity of Florida JC Malmstadt and JB Elsner
	52	Historical tropical Atlantic storm numbers from climate models D Fereday, J Camp, A Scaife, J Knight, and R Graham
	53	Evidence for a solar influence on North Atlantic hurricanes RE Hodges and JB Elsner
	54	The intra-americas low-level jet and tropical cyclone development JA Amador
	55	Relevant features of the 2008 climate in Central America and Carribean JA Amador, EJ Alfaro, ER Rivera, and B Calderón
	56	Simulating recent atlantic tropical cyclone activity using different regional climate model configurations LP Caron and CG Jones
	57	Flood forecasting from radar and numerical weather prediction information using artificial neural networks YM Chiang, WP Tsai, and FJ Chang
	58	Impact of mid-latitude SST anomalies on the atlantic meridional mode D Smirnov and DJ Vimont
	59	Tropical cyclones trajectories in the North Atlantic Ocean with the sunspot cycle of 11-years E Buendía and AR Meulenert
	60	Ocean surface conditions associated to tropical cyclones instensification over American tropical seas OS Montante, AO Hernández,GB Raga and J Zavala-Hidalgo
	61	A multi-model analysis of projected climate change impacts on Australian region tropical cyclones D Abbs and M Thatcher
	62	Climatology and selected case studies of the role of ocean eddies in the intensification of tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific F Oropeza and GB Raga
	63	Linking entropy flow with the potential tropical storm event trend in the earth armosphere as a whole Y Liu and C Liu
	64	Future changes in tropical cyclone frequency in a perturbed physics ensemble of the hadley centre coupled climate model JH Kim, SJ Brown, and RE McDonald
	65	Impact of shifting patterns of Pacific Ocean warming events on North Atlantic tropical cyclone HM Kim, PJ Webster, and JA Curry
	66	Reconstructing Holocene atlantic hurricane activity with multi-proxy palAeo-climate records and numerical modelling HJ de Boer, SC Dekker, E Lammertsma, E van Soelen, and MJ Wassen
	67	Hurricane weakening by cooling ocean waters via seeding of maritime clouds J Latham, PJ Rasch and CC Chen
	68	Intense tropical cyclone Bondo landfall ompact on the Seychelles Islands in the Southwest Indian Ocean: emerging tropical cyclone risk and its implications D Chang Seng
	69	Observatory and research on extreme phenomena over the Oceans: the ORPHEO project Y Quilfen, B Chapron, F Collard, JF Piolle, J Tournadre
	70	A rough estimate of potential changes in carbon fixation and CO2 fluxes in the South China Sea in response to typhoons S Shang, Y Li, and H Wang