Session: Tropical Climatology and Climate Change (2008

Session 2B
	Tropical Climatology and Climate Change
	Chair: C. Zhang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
	10:15 AM	2B.1	A new set of mean soundings for the tropical North Atlantic and Caribbean Sea Jason P. Dunion, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
	10:30 AM	2B.2	Latent heating profiles over the tropical oceans Samson M. Hagos, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang
	10:45 AM	2B.3	A climatology of ocean temperature forcing by aerosols across the tropical Atlantic Amato Evan, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Heidinger, R. Bennartz, N. Mahowald, and C. S. Velden
	11:00 AM	2B.4	Characterizing the synoptic timescale ITCZ in the eastern to central Pacific Gudrun Magnusdottir, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and C. C. Wang, H. Stern, P. Smyth, and L. Scharenbroich
	11:15 AM	2B.5	A Comparison of Subtropical Storms in the South Atlantic Basin with Australian East-Coast Cyclones Aviva J. Braun, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
	11:30 AM	2B.6	Troposphere Cloud Ice: Satellite Measurements, ECMWF and GEOS5 Analyses, and GCM Simulations Jui-Lin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Waliser, C. P. Woods, J. D. Chern, J. Bacmeister, J. Jiang, D. Genio, R. Rossow, M. Kharitondov, H. Meng, P. Minnis, S. S. Mack, A. M. Tompkins, W. K. Tao, Z. Kuang, D. G. Vane, G. Stephens, and D. L. Wu
	11:45 AM	2B.7	Robust projections of vertical wind shear changes for the 21st Century Brian J. Soden, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and G. A. Vecchi

Monday, 28 April 2008: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM, Palms E

* - Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting

Session 2B