Session 9 |
| | Tropical Transition Layer |
| 1:30 PM | 9.1 | Ice cloud formation and dehydration in the tropical tropopause layer
Eric Jensen, NASA/ARC, Moffett Field, CA |
| 2:05 PM | 9.2 | Clouds, water vapor and climate in the tropical tropopause region
Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:20 PM | 9.3 | Driving of the annual cycle in tropical tropopause temperatures by localized breaking of synoptic-scale waves
Warwick Norton, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; and A. Kerr-Munslow |
| 2:35 PM | 9.4 | The connection between stratospheric intrusions and tropical convection
Beatriz Funatsu, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and D. Waugh |
| 2:50 PM | 9.5 | The origins of thin cirrus observed in the tropical tropopause layer over the Pacific Ocean: Convective influence case studies from the GTE Pacific Exploratory Missions
Henry B. Selkirk, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, CA; and L. Pfister and E. V. Browell |
| 3:05 PM | | Coffee Break
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