12th Conference on Middle Atmosphere

Session 8: Polar Stratosphere

Thursday, 7 November 2002: 8:30 AM-1:30 PM
Papers:
  8:30 AM
8.1
Denitrification of the Polar Stratosphere
Paul O. Wennberg, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. Dhaniyala and K. McKinney

  9:05 AM
8.2
Surface crystallization of supercooled droplets in clouds
Azadeh Tabazadeh, NASA/ARC, Moffett Field, CA

  9:20 AM
8.3
Clouds in the winter Arctic tropopause region during SOLVE
Leonhard Pfister, NASA/ARC, Moffett Field, CA; and H. Selkirk, B. Anderson, J. Podolske, G. Sachse, M. Avery, and M. Schoeberl

  9:35 AM
8.4
The role of NOy as a diagnostic of small-scale mixing in a denitrified polar vortex
R. S. Gao, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Popp, E. A. Ray, K. H. Rosenlof, M. J. Northway, D. W. Fahey, A. F. Tuck, C. R. Webster, D. F. Hurst, S. M. Schauffler, H. Jost, and T. P. Bui

  9:50 AM
8.5
Influence of the Tibetan High on the south polar vortex: mechanistic modeling and observations
Marek J. Rogal, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. H. Hitchman

  10:05 AM
8.6
Evolutional Paths of Stratospheric Polar Vortices
Ping-ping Rong, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and D. Waugh

  10:20 AM
8.7
A climatology of vortex life cycles in the stratosphere and their effect on tracer transport
V. Lynn Harvey, LRC, Hampton, VA; and R. B. Pierce, T. D. Fairlie, and M. H. Hitchman

  10:35 AM
8.8
The influence of vortex edge thickness on Rossby wave breaking
Richard K. Scott, Columbia University, New York, NY; and D. G. Dritschel, L. M. Polvani, and D. W. Waugh

  10:50 AM
8.9
A parameter-sweep experiment on the effect of equatorial QBO on the occurrence of stratospheric sudden warmings
Yoko Naito, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and M. Taguchi and S. Yoden

  11:05 AM
Model Studies of Winter Hemisphere stratospheric Flow Regimes
Lesley J. Gary, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon, England

  11:20 AM
Coffee Break

  11:50 AM
Discussion

  12:00 PM
Lunch Break