Proceedings of the Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop (8th) Held at the Canadian Climate Centre, Atmospheric Environment Service, Downsview, Ontario, October 17-21, 1983

摘要

The Eighth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop was hosted by the Canadian Climate Centre in Downsview Ontario. The success of the Workshop was in no small way due to the work of Gordon McKay who jointly shared with the Climate Analysis Center in the planning and organization of the Workshop. The local arrangements, hospitality, and excellent facilities made the Workshop a pleasant experience for all participants. The purpose of these Proceedings is to provide synopses of the presentations at the Workshop and all except one of the papers that were presented are included here. The Workshop opened with the same format as previous years with a session devoted to a review of climate fluctuations for the period September 1982 to August 1983. This was followed by sessions on the hot topic of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, El Chichon and climate diagnostics in general. A session focused on monthly and seasonal predictions completed the Workshop.