Poster Session P3 Poster Session III: African Climate, Monsoon, Tropical Large Scale, Convection, Tropical Waves, Data Assimilation, Ocean Observations, Air-Sea Interaction

Thursday, 19 April 2012: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Heritage Ballroom (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

**Indicates paper is being considered for the Max Eaton Student Prize**

Papers:
 
P3.1
Improving our knowledge of African weather and climate – Climate Science Research Partnership (CSRP)
Caroline L. Bain, UK Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and R. Graham, C. Senior, D. Rowell, W. Moufouma-Okia, M. Vellinga, and R. Comer

Manuscript (629.1 kB)

 
P3.2
Mid-21st century changes in extreme events over Northern and Tropical Africa
Edward Vizy, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX; and K. H. Cook

Handout (3.6 MB)

 
P3.3
Vertical distribution of Saharan dust and radiative forcing over the northern tropical Atlantic
Weijie Wang, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and A. Evan

 
P3.4
On the dynamics of north African squall lines
Stefan N. Tulich, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO

 
P3.5
Determination of Cloud Seeding Potential by using Instability Indices
Foroozan Arkian, Marine Research and Technology Faculty, Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; and H. Hamidi

 
P3.6
Testing convective transport on short timescales: comparisons with mass divergence and ozone anomaly patterns about high rain events
Toni Mitovski, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and I. Folkins, R. Martin, and M. Cooper

 
P3.7
Bayesian Inference for the Stochastic Multicloud Model
Michèle De La Chevrotière, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; and B. Khouider and A. J. Majda

 
P3.8
Rectification of the Diurnal Cycle Over Small Islands in Radiative-Convective Equilibrium
Timothy W. Cronin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and K. A. Emanuel

Manuscript (904.8 kB)

Handout (1005.8 kB)

 
P3.9
Convection-permitting simulations of diurnally forced convection over the Maritime Continent
Muhammad E. Hassim, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and T. P. Lane, S. Caine, S. Webster, M. Black, C. Jakob, and S. C. Sherwood

 
P3.10
Convectively coupled wave-environment interactions
Samuel N. Stechmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and A. J. Majda and D. Skjorshammer

 
P3.11
Simple models for the diurnal cycle and convectively coupled waves
Yevgeniy Frenkel, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science and Department of Mathematics, New York University, New York, NY; and A. J. Majda and B. Khouider

 
P3.12
Intraseasonal modulation of African Easterly Wave activity
Stephanie Leroux, SUNY, University of Albany, Albany, NY; and C. D. Thorncroft and J. Cerrato

 
P3.13
Numerical Simulation of Tropical Cyclogenesis From a Long-lived Easterly Wave
Anantha Aiyyer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and D. Church

 
P3.14
A climatology of Kelvin waves in the Eastern Pacific and its role in extreme precipitation events in Southern Mexico and Central America
Victor M. Torres, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY; and C. Thorncroft

 
P3.15
Construction and Characterization of Merged Atmospheric-Oceanic Temperature Profiles from Dropsondes and AXBT's during the ITOP Project
Kathryn Young, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Moore, J. Wang, J. Schaffer, P. Harr, E. D'Asaro, and S. Loehrer

 
P3.16
Impact of Air-Sea Interaction on the Genesis of Tropical Incipient Vortex over South China Sea―A Case Study

 
P3.17
How do anomalous heat fluxes affect the maximum tangential velocity in a tropical cyclone?
Kosuke Ito, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Y. Ishikawa, Y. Miyamoto, T. Awaji, and C. C. Wu

 
P3.18
On surface fluxes and tropical cyclone intensification
Eric D. Rappin, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan

 
P3.19
Influence of the interannual variability of tropical cyclones on the western Gulf of Mexico circulation
Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, DF, Mexico; and M. E. Allende-Arandía, A. Mateos-Jasso, and R. Romero-Centeno

 
P3.20
Is the surface wind asymmetry in a tropical cyclone affected by ocean surface waves?
Jeffrey D. Kepert, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

 
P3.21
Observed Influence of the Atlantic Warm Pool on Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Michael Kozar, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and V. Misra

 
P3.22
The Thermal Effect of the Tropical Western Pacific on the Interannual Variability of Monsoon Trough Tropical Cyclone and Typhoon Activity over the Northwest Pacific
RongHui Huang, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and L. Wu, T. Feng, and J. Zhang

Manuscript (1.1 MB)

 
P3.23
The Influence of Monsoon Trough on Tropical Cyclones over Western North Pacific: Role of Tropical Waves
Liang Wu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and R. Huang and Z. Wen

Manuscript (1.2 MB)

 
P3.24
Energetic constraints on monsoonal Hadley circulations
Timothy M. Merlis, Princeton University and GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman

 
P3.25
The Intraseasonal Variability of Precipitable Water Vapor during West African Monsoon
Emmanuel D. Poan, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and R. Roehrig, F. Couvreux, and J. P. Lafore

Handout (3.5 MB)

 
P3.26
Structure of the Western North Pacific Monsoon Depression
Jodi Beattie, NPS, Monterey, CA; and R. L. Elsberry

 
P3.27
Experimental Intraseasonal Forecasting of Asian Summer Monsoon
Xiouhua Fu, IPRC, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and W. Wang, J. Y. Lee, and F. Vitart

 
P3.28
Climatologies of ultra‐low clouds over the southern West African monsoon region and their representation in the Weather Research and Forecasting model WRF
Andreas H. Fink, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany; and R. Schuster, R. van der Linden, J. M. Schrage, C. Akpanya, and C. Yorke

Manuscript (5.2 MB)

Handout (5.9 MB)

 
P3.29
The Impact of Anomalous Aerosol Heating on the Onset of the Asian Summer Monsoon
Andrew Martin, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and T. N. Krishnamurti and W. K. M. Lau

 
P3.30
Application of the isentropic analysis of convective motions for gravity wave filtering in the TWP-ICE IOP 2006 Australian Monsoon
Agnieszka A. Mrowiec, NASA GISS / Columbia University, New York, NY; and O. Pauluis, A. M. Fridlind, and A. S. Ackerman

 
P3.31
Impact of the Tibetan Plateau on the Asian monsoon. II: Seasonal evolution of the South Asian monsoon
Hyo Seok Park, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. Bordoni

 
P3.32
Evolution of Potential Vorticity as a Sign of MJO Initiation: A Case Study
Jian Ling, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang

 
P3.33
Potential Vorticity Accumulation Following Atmospheric Kelvin Waves in the Active Convective Region of the MJO
Kyle MacRitchie, SUNY, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy

Handout (1.2 MB)

 
P3.34
The Relationship Between Atmospheric Rivers and the MJO
farnaz hosseinpour, new mexico tech, socorro, NM; and D. J. Raymond

http://sites.google.com/site/farnazhosseinpourhomepage/

Manuscript (7.9 kB)

Handout (2.4 MB)

 
P3.35
The seasonal variability in the global atmospheric circulation associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Naoko Sakaeda, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and P. E. Roundy

 
P3.36
Investigating the thermodynamic control of the Madden-Julian oscillation using weak temperature gradient approximation
S. Barkidija, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and S. Sessions and Z. Fuchs

 
P3.37
Responses in the Extratropical Circulation over the North Pacific Ocean and North America in Association with Combined Activity of the Madden – Julian Oscillation and Equatorial Rossby Waves
Lawrence C. Gloeckler III, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy

Manuscript (5.2 MB)

 
P3.38
Seasonal Modulation of Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations on Tropical Cyclone Geneses in the Western North Pacific
Ping Huang, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and C. Chou and R. H. Huang

 
P3.39
A Possible Root Cause of the Equatorial Atlantic Systematic Biases in Global Climate Models
David Zermeno, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang

 
P3.40
Changes in Western Pacific tropical cyclones associated with the El Nino-Southern Oscillation cycle
Cheuk Yin Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and W. Zhou

Handout (3.5 MB)

 
P3.41
An Analysis of Central American Gyres
Philippe P. Papin, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and K. S. Griffin, L. F. Bosart, and R. D. Torn

 
P3.42
The Tropical Subseasonal Variability Simulated in the NASA GISS General Circulation Model
Daehyun Kim, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and A. H. Sobel, A. D. Del Genio, Y. Chen, S. J. Camargo, M. S. Yao, and M. Kelley

 
P3.43
The sensitivity of multiple equilibria to sea surface temperature changes in WTG simulations
Stipo Sentic, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and S. Sessions

Manuscript (412.0 kB)

Handout (1.2 MB)

 
P3.44
Four-year Coupling between El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Water Vapor Transport over East Asia
Xiuzhen Li, City University of Hongkong, Hongkong, Hong Kong; and W. Zhou

Manuscript (3.6 MB)

Handout (10.3 MB)

 
P3.45
Bimodal Representation of the Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillation
Kazuyoshi Kikuchi, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang and Y. Kajikawa

 
P3.46
Precipitation Anomalies in the Deep Tropics Following the Sudden Stratospheric Warming
Usama M. Anber, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY; and L. M. Polvani and A. H. Sobel

 
P3.47
Ensemble Simulation of Rainfall in Typhoon Sinlaku (2008) Based on EnKF Data Assimilation
Shih-Chieh Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. C. Wu

 
P3.48
Toward Understanding the Climatic Role of Tropical Cyclones Using an Atmospheric General Circulation Model: Experiment Design, Model Evaluation, and Preliminary Results
Henry Winterbottom, EMC, Boulder, CO; and P. Pegion and R. E. Hart

 
P3.49
Evaluating Wind and Temperature Structure in Analyses and Forecasts for PSU Real-Time HFIP Simulations
Daniel P. Stern, UCAR, Monterey, CA; and F. Zhang

 
P3.50
Tropical cyclone initialization and dynamic adjustment: Sensitivity studies
Eric D. Rappin, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan and S. J. Majumdar

 
P3.51
Impact of Assimilation of Ground-based Doppler Radar Data on the Initialization and Prediction Super Typhoon Jangmi (2008)
Ningzhu Du, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue

 
P3.52
Rainfall Simulation of Typhoon Morakot with Controlled Translation Speed Based on EnKF Data Assimilation
Tzu-Hsiung Yen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. C. Wu and G. Y. Lien

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