2015 CVCWG Workshop Presentations The Pacific Decadal Oscillation Revisited Michael Alexander ACME Ambitions and Status David Bader CVCWG Update & Plans 2015-2017 Susan Bates Our Climate without Antarctica Cecilia Bitz Impact of stochastic parametrisation schemes on the climate of CESM Hannah Christensen Southern Ocean Variability: Observations and Mechanisms Clara Deser Stability of the AMOC depends on the background climate Aixue Hu The influence of "fixing" the Southern Ocean shortwave ratiation model bias on global energy budgets and circulation patterns Jen Kay Estimating the Regional Response to Global Warming Using Pattern-Scaled SSTs Paul Kushner Atlantic Induced Tropical-wide Climate Change in Ocean and Atmosphere Xichen Li The Southern Ocean and the Global Carbon Cycle Matt Long Characteristics of the distribution of rainfall Angeline Pendergrass Causes of change in Northern Hemisphere winter meridional wind and regional hydroclimate Isla Simpson Does the autumn Arctic sea ice loss affect the winter and spring atmospheric circulation? Lantao Sun How will precipitation change in extratropical cyclones as the planet warms? Vineel Yettella