10th Conference on Mesoscale Processes

Session 13: Mesoscale Balance and Gravity Waves

Friday, 27 June 2003: 8:30 AM-10:45 AM
Chair:  Craig Epifanio, Texas A&M University
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Generation of inertia-gravity waves during a poleward Rossby wave breaking event
Christoph Zülicke, Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock, Kühlungsborn, Germany; and D. Peters

  8:45 AM
Dynamics of balance in idealized simulations of baroclinic-wave life cycles
Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and A. I. Barcilon and T. A. Smith

  9:00 AM
The nature and evolution of balance in unstable barotropic jets
Travis A. Smith, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and P. Cunningham and A. I. Barcilon

Poster PDF (507.5 kB)
  9:15 AM
Generation of Mesoscale Gravity Waves in Upper-Tropospheric Jet-Front Systems
Fuqing Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  9:30 AM
Numerical modeling of turbulence above the jet stream during SCATCAT
Todd P. Lane, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Doyle, R. D. Sharman, and M. A. Shapiro

Poster PDF (340.7 kB)
  9:45 AM
Turbulence in a model tropopause jet: high resolution 3D direct numerical simulations and parameterization
Binson Joseph, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. Mahalov, B. Nicolaenko, and K. L. Tse

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
  10:00 AM
Inertia-gravity wave generation by the tropospheric mid-latitude jet as given by the FASTEX radiosoundings
Riwal Plougonven, LMD, Paris, France; and H. Teitelbaum and V. Zeitlin

Poster PDF (182.4 kB)
  10:15 AM
Coffee Break