•   Jing-Jia Luo, Swadhin Behera, and Toshio Yamagata
•Frontier Research Center for Global Change (FRCGC), JAMSTEC, Japan
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                         SINTEX-F Coupled GCM
1.  Model components:
    AGCM (MPI, Germany):            ECHAM4.6 (T106L19)
     OGCM (LODYC, France):         OPA8.2 (2° x 0.5°~2°, L31)
     Coupler (CERFACS, France):    OASIS2.4
         *   No flux correction, no sea ice model
2.  International collaborators:
     LODYC:         OPA model group
     INGV (Italy):   A. Navarra’s group
     MPI-Met:        ECHAM model group
     CERFACE:     OASIS coupler group
Running on the Earth Simulator
Seasonal predictions in the Indian Ocean
OK, my talk is about seasonal predictions. As you may know, many centers in the world are now doing ENSO forecast regularly. But for the IO, there are still very few activities up to now. Here, I am going to introduce the IO predictions mainly based on JAMSTEC-Frontier coupled model.