Session 21 Tropical Circulation 2

Friday, 17 June 2011: 8:30 AM-10:15 AM
Elizabethan Room (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair:
Dargan M. Frierson, Univ. of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA

Papers:
8:30 AM
21.1
Spontaneous transition to superrotation driven by a large-amplitude MJO in very warm climate simulations
Rodrigo Caballero, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden; and M. Huber
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
21.2
Response of tropical climate and circulations to precession of the perihelion
Timothy M. Merlis, Princeton University and GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
21.3
The strength of the equinox Hadley circulation over a wide range of climates in a hierarchy of models
Xavier J. Levine, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and T. Schneider
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
21.4
Response of convection to relative SST: Cloud-resolving simulations in 2D and 3D
Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and A. H. Sobel

9:30 AM
21.5
Representing feedbacks from large-scale dynamics in limited domain models of tropical convection: an assessment of current approaches
Zhiming Kuang, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
21.6
Variability and change of the sea surface temperature threshold for convection
Nat Johnson, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM
21.7
Equatorial planetary waves and their signature in atmospheric variability
Kevin M. Grise, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and D. W. J. Thompson
Recorded Presentation

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