12th Conference on Middle Atmosphere

Session 9: Tropical Transition Layer

Thursday, 7 November 2002: 1:30 PM-3:35 PM
Papers:
  1:30 PM
9.1
  2:05 PM
9.2
  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