13th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (Expanded View)

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Sunday, 3 June 2001
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday
1 Conference Registration
 
Monday, 4 June 2001
7:30 AM, Monday
Registration Continues through Friday, 8 June
 
8:30 AM-8:45 AM, Monday
Welcoming Remarks
 
8:45 AM-10:30 AM, Monday
Session 1 Scale Interactions and Turbulence
Organizer: Christopher S. Bretherton, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
8:45 AM1.1Balanced turbulence on the tropopause  
Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Hakim and D. Muraki
9:00 AM1.2A theory for stochastic models of large-scale turbulence  
Timothy DelSole, COLA, Calverton, MD
9:15 AM1.3Observations of a convectively coupled Kelvin wave  extended abstract
Katherine H. Straub, CIRES and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO and Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
9:30 AM1.4Models for Convectively Coupled Tropical Waves  extended abstract
Andrew J. Majda, New York Univ., New York, NY
9:45 AM1.5On the Flux Representation of Internal Wave Spectral Transports  extended abstract
Kurt L. Polzin, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA
10:00 AM1.6Nonlinear drag, geostrophic turbulence, and heat transport  
Nadejda Grianik, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis, I. M. Held, and K. S. Smith
10:15 AMDiscussion  
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Monday
Poster Session 1 Atmospheric Dynamics I— with Late morning Coffee break
 P1.1On the relationship between subtropical and eddy-driven jets  
Sukyoung Lee, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and H. K. Kim
 P1.2Hadley cell dynamics in a primitive equation model  
Hyun-kyung Kim, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Lee
P1.3On the vertical structure of the extratropical circulation response to global warming and of the annular modes  
Paul J. Kushner, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
 P1.3AEnergy flux and quasi-geostrophic theory  
Peter R. Bannon, Penn State University, University Park, PA
 P1.4Cyclone-anticyclone asymmetry concerning the height of the thermal and the dynamical tropopause  
Volkmar Wirth, Univ. of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
 P1.5Vertical normal modes in a hybrid-coordinate system  
Chungu Lu, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and D. Devenyi, S. G. Benjamin, and W. Schubert
 P1.6Observational study of the remote forcing of Pacific subtropical highs  extended abstract
Richard Grotjahn, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and S. Immel
 P1.7Mechanism for the generation of secondary waves in wave breaking regions  extended abstract
Sharon L. Vadas, Colorado Research Associates Division, Boulder, CO; and D. C. Fritts
 P1.8Mathematical Strategies for Stochastic Climate Modeling  extended abstract
Ilya Timofeyev, New York Univ., New York, NY; and A. Majda
 P1.9Backward Fokker-Planck equation for determination of Model Predictability with uncertain initial errors  
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and L. M. Ivanov
 P1.10Baroclinic adjustment observed in the Southern Hemisphere  
Yucheng Song, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and N. Nakamura
 P1.11Condensed Representaion of Atmospheric Dynamics by Using Its Essential Degrees of Freedom in a Primitive Equation Model  extended abstract
Ulrich Achatz, Leibniz-Institut fuer Atmosphaerenphysik and er Universitaet Rostock, Kuehlungsborn, Germany; and J. D. Opsteegh
 P1.12Distinguished limits, multiple scales asymptotics, and numerics for atmospheric flows  extended abstract
Rupert Klein, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany; and N. Botta and A. Owinoh
 P1.13GCM simulation of a spontaneous QBO-like mean flow oscillation  
Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
 P1.14GCM tests of theories for eddy heat transport in the atmosphere  
Leon Barry, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and G. C. Craig and J. Thuburn
 P1.15Interactions between forced planetary waves and stratospheric ozone: A mechanism for affecting tropospheric wave fluxes?  
Terry Nathan, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and E. Cordero
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch
 
1:30 PM-3:05 PM, Monday
Session 2 Potential vorticity dynamics
Organizer: John Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
1:30 PM2.1The PV Bible: Applications in Atmospheric Dynamics (Invited Presentation)  extended abstract
John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
2:05 PM2.2The use of potential vorticity in tropical dynamics  extended abstract
Wayne H. Schubert, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2:20 PM2.3The Potential Vorticity Structure of a Severe Extra-tropical Cyclone  extended abstract
Matthias Zillig, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies
2:35 PM2.4A potential vorticity and wave activity flux diagnosis of optimal perturbation evolution  extended abstract
Michael C. Morgan, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2:50 PM2.5The equilibration of short Charney modes: implications for PV homogenization  extended abstract
Pablo Zurita, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen
 
3:05 PM-3:30 PM, Monday
Coffee Break
 
3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Monday
Session 3 PV and Vorticity Dynamics
Organizer: Volkmar Wirth, Univ. of Mainz, Mainz Germany
3:30 PM3.1Potential vorticity sources and sinks in ocean and atmosphere (Invited Presentation)  
Peter B. Rhines, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
4:05 PM3.2A Constraint of Potential Vorticity on the Abyssal Ocean Circulation  
Jiayan Yang, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and J. F. Price
4:20 PM3.3Vortex Rossby waves on smooth circular vortices: Exact results and application to tropical cyclone and polar vortex interiors  
Michael T. Montgomery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and G. Brunet
4:35 PM3.4Shallow Water Model Simulations of the Lifecycle of Stratospheric Polar Vortices  
Ping-Ping Rong, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh
4:50 PMDiscussion  
 
5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Monday
Poster Session 2 Scale Interactions & Turbulence/PV Dynamics(Icebreaker Reception/Cash Bar)
P2.1Noise-induced drifts in weather and climate  
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA/CIRES and CDC, Boulder, CO; and C. Penland, M. Newman, and H. P. Huang
 P2.2The k^-3 and k^-5/3 Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Turbulence  
Ka-Kit Tung, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and W. T. Welch
 P2.3Simulated recovery of the mesoscale energy spectrum from smooth initial conditions  
Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and J. N. Koshyk and R. S. Hemler
 P2.4The breakdown of balance in low potential vorticity regions: Evidence from a clear air turbulence outbreak  
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
 P2.5The fluctuation-dissipation theorem for moist atmospheric convection  
George C. Craig, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and B. G. Cohen
 P2.6The influence of moist convection on the predictability of large scales in a limited-area atmospheric model  
Fuqing Zhang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Snyder and R. Rotunno
 P2.7Oscillation of Separation Distance Between a Paired Typhoon-Scale Vortices  extended abstract
Hyeong-Bin Cheong, Pukyong National Univ., Pusan, Korea; and M. -. K. Kang and T. -. Y. Goo
 P2.8Origin of dynamical features preceding the onset of blocking  
Stephen J. Colucci, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
 P2.9Vortex life cycles in quasi-geostrophic flows with jets  extended abstract
R. Lee Panetta, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. K. Fox
 P2.10The nonlinear evolution and potential vorticity transport of symmetric equatorial inertial instability  
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton
 P2.11Study of tropopause perturbation and effects on cyclogenesis using potential vorticity inversion method  extended abstract
D. Lambert, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France; and P. Arbogast, J. -. P. Cammas, J. Donnadille, and P. Mascart
 P2.12Structure and evolution of upper-tropospheric jet streaks in a stratified quasigeostrophic model  extended abstract
Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and D. Keyser
 P2.13An analytical approach to predictability based on potential vorticity gradients  
Bach-Lien Hua, IFREMER, Plouzane, France; and G. Riviere and P. Klein
 P2.14Diagnosis of the origin and dynamical influence of upper-tropospheric negative PV anomalies  extended abstract
Mark A. Liniger, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies
P2.15Comparison of Dynamical Simulations and Statistical Predictions for Models of Open-Ocean Deep Convection  
Marcus J. Grote, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and A. J. Majda
 
Tuesday, 5 June 2001
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday
Poster Session 3 Atmospheric Dynamics II—Eyeopener (Continental Breakfast)
 P3.1Three-dimensional stability analyses of intense atmospheric vortices with secondary circulations  
David S. Nolan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. T. Montgomery
 P3.2A laboratory study of Hurricane mesovortices  
Michael T. Montgomery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. A. Vladimirov and P. V. Denissenko
 P3.33D alignment and co-rotation of TC-like vortices via linear vortex Rossby waves  
Paul D. Reasor, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and M. T. Montgomery
 P3.4A theory for the Vertical Alignment of a tilted geophysical vortex  extended abstract
David A. Schecter, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and M. T. Montgomery and P. D. Reasor
 P3.5Early evolution of vertical vorticity in a numerically-simulated idealized convective line  
Thomas A. Cram, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. T. Montgomery and R. F. A. Hertenstein
 P3.6Mesovorteices, polygonal flow patterns, and rapid pressure falls in hurricanes-like vortices  extended abstract
James P. Kossin, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. H. Schubert
 P3.7The role of shallow heating in driving tropical atmospheric circulations  
Zhaohua Wu, COLA, Calverton, MD
 P3.8Dynamics of convectively coupled Kelvin waves in the eastern Pacific ITCZ  
Katherine H. Straub, CIRES and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and G. N. Kiladis
P3.9The modification of inertial stability on the poleward edge of the ITCZ in association with a breaking Rossby wave over the subtropical North Pacific  
Gregory A. Postel, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Mecikalski
 P3.10The Origin of Monsoon Onset. Part II: Rotational ITCZ Attractors  
Winston C. Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Chen
 P3.11The linear acoustic and gravity wave response to localized heating in a compressible atmosphere  
Jeffrey M. Chagnon, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and P. R. Bannon
 P3.12Energy conserving low-order models for potential vorticity dynamics and convection with shear  extended abstract
Alexander Gluhovsky, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and C. Tong and E. Agee
 P3.13A new treatment of the lower boundary and surface pressure equation in GCMs  
Jean-Michel Campin, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. Adcroft
 P3.14Reflection of planetary waves in three-dimensional tropospheric flows—effects of the Hadley circulation  
Christopher C. Walker, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir
 P3.15The traditional approximation and equatorial inertial instability  extended abstract
Mark Fruman, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd
 
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday
Session 4 Waves, Stability, and the General Circulation
Organizer: Peter Bannon, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA
10:00 AM4.1The weak temperature gradient approximation and balanced tropical moisture waves  
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY; and J. Nilsson and L. M. Polvani
10:15 AM4.2Simple modelling of large-scale steady tropical circulations coupled with deep moist convection and driven by SST gradients  
Christopher S. Bretherton, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Peters and A. H. Sobel
10:30 AM4.3Nonmodal growth in spherical geometry  extended abstract
Cris Castello, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and R. Grotjahn
10:45 AM4.4Localized anomalies, Rossby wave-guides and baroclinic instability  extended abstract
Sébastien Dirren, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies
11:00 AM4.5Wavelet analysis and the governing dynamics of a large-amplitude gravity wave event along the East Coast of the United States  
Fuqing Zhang, NCAR, Boulder, CO
11:15 AM4.6The effect of reflecting surfaces on the vertical structure and variability of stratospheric planetary waves  extended abstract
Nili Harnik, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL and MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen
11:30 AM4.7On the effect of Rossby wave breaking on vertically propagating disturbances  
Constantine Giannitsis, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen
11:45 AM4.8Dynamics of isolated anomalies in zonally varying jet streams  
Daniel Hodyss, University of California, Davis, CA; and T. Nathan
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch
 
1:30 PM-2:31 PM, Tuesday
Session 4 Waves, Stability, and the General Circulation (Continued)
Organizer: Isaac M. Held, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
1:30 PM4.9Superrotation in an axisymmetric shallow water model of the upper troposphere  extended abstract
Karen M. Shell, SIO/Univ. Of California, San Diego, CA; and I. Held
1:45 PM4.10Surface quasigeostrophic dynamics: eddy scales and tracer flux in forced-dissipative flow  
C. Y. Tam, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis and K. S. Smith
2:00 PM4.11A parameterization of the surface heat flux in midlatitudes  extended abstract
Tapio Schneider, New York University, New York, NY; and I. M. Held
2:15 PM4.12Axially symmetric circulations in a moist atmosphere  extended abstract
Olivier Pauluis, MIT, Cambridge, MA
4.13General circulation, potential vorticity transport, and surface heat transport  
Tieh-Yong Koh, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. A. Plumb
 
2:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break
 
3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday
Session 5 Gravity wave impacts upon the general circulation
Organizer: William J. Randel, NCAR, Boulder, CO
3:00 PM5.1Gravity Wave Effects and Their Parameterization in Global Models (Invited Presentation)  
Kevin Hamilton, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
3:35 PM5.2Nonhydrostatic Effects in the Parameterization of Non-Orographic Gravity-Wave Drag  
John F. Scinocca, MSC, Victoria, BC, Canada
3:50 PM5.3Analysis of numerically simulated gravity waves generated by convection  extended abstract
Zachary A. Eitzen, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and D. A. Randall
4:05 PM5.4Wave-mean-flow interactions in a gravity wave packet critical layer  extended abstract
Lucy Campbell, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
4:20 PM5.5Modulation of the gravity wave driven meridional circulation in the mesosphere by planetary wave forcing in the troposphere  extended abstract
Erich Becker, Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kuehlungsborn, Germany; and G. Schmitz
4:35 PM5.6Effects of Gravity Waves in the SKYHI General Circulation Model  
M. Joan Alexander, Colorado Research Associates Division of Northwest Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and L. Bruhwiler
4:50 PMDiscussion  
 
5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Tuesday
Poster Session 4 Low frequency variability/Gravity waves (Reception/Cash Bar)
 P4.1Low-frequency atmospheric variability and seasonality of the mean circulation  
Grant W. Branstator, NCAR, Boulder, CO
 P4.2A linear model of low-frequency variability  
Matthew Newman, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh and C. R. Winkler
 P4.3Interactions between External and Intraseasonal Atmospheric Variability  extended abstract
David M. Straus, COLA, Calverton, MD; and F. Molteni
 P4.4Low-frequency variability of the extratropical stratospheric circulation: Role of the low-latitude mean momentum  
Kevin Hamilton, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and M. D. Schwarzkopf and V. Ramaswamy
 P4.5Internal interannual variations of the troposphere-stratosphere coupled system  
Shigeo Yoden, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and M. Taguchi and Y. Naito
 P4.6Numerical simulation of Rossby wave breaking and blocking formation using a simple barotropic model  
H. L. Tanaka, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
P4.7Using singular vectors to study low-frequency atmospheric variability  
Jason C. Goodman, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and J. Marshall
 P4.8A low dimensional model of extratropical low frequency variability  
Fabio D'Andrea, MIT, Cambridge, MA
 P4.9The Low Frequency Dynamics on the Wave Ray Propagation of Tropical Atmosphere Energy Dispersion  
Xiangde Xu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and Q. Miao
 P4.10The impact of orographic gravity wave drag on the GCM prediction of atmospheric angular momentum  
Huei-Ping Huang, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh
 P4.11A simple parameterization of the generation of gravity waves by deep tropical convection  
Todd P. Lane, NCAR, Boulder, CO
P4.12The focusing of gravity-wave energy by a gravity-wave spectrum  
Len Sonmor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, ON, Canada; and G. Klaassen
 P4.13The impact of a new orographic gravity wave drag scheme in the Met Office Unified Model  extended abstract
Stuart Webster, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom
 P4.14Impact of convectively generated gravity wave drag on the atmospheric general circulation  
Hye-Yeong Chun, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, Korea; and J. J. Baik
 
Wednesday, 6 June 2001
8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Session 6 Ocean Dynamics I
Organizer: Alain Colin de Verdiere, Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans, Brest France
8:30 AM6.1The response of the ocean to decadal variability in atmospheric forcing: wind versus thermal forcing  extended abstract
LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. Ladd
8:45 AM6.2Testing theories of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current against observations  extended abstract
Richard Karsten, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and J. Marshall
9:00 AM6.3Wind-induced constraints on the mass and buoyancy transports in a simple adiabatic model of the ocean circulation  extended abstract
Rémi Tailleux, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/UPMC, Paris, France
9:15 AM6.4Offshore Propagation of Eddy Kinetic Energy in the California Current  
Robert L. Haney, NPS, Monterey, CA; and R. A. Hale and D. E. Dietrich
9:30 AM6.5Long planetery waves in a three layer ocean with a wind-driven steady circulation  
Ivana Cerovecki, COAS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and R. de Szoeke
9:45 AM6.6Generation of Strong Mid-Ocean Eddies from Nonzonal Mean Flows  
Brian K. Arbic, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and G. R. Flierl
10:00 AM6.7The statistical dynamics of Geophysical flows  extended abstract
Terence J. O'Kane, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and J. S. Frederiksen
10:15 AM6.8Horizontal dispersion of near-inertial oscillations in a turbulent mesoscale eddy field  extended abstract
Patrice Klein, IFREMER, Plouzane, France; and S. Llewellyn-Smith
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
Poster Session 5 Ocean Dynamics II/Thermohaline Circulations— with Late morning coffee
 P5.1Models of ocean circulation based on the residual circulation  
Daniel Jamous, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and J. C. Marshall
 P5.2What Controls the Vertical Structure and Horizontal Scales of Mid-Ocean Eddies?  
Brian K. Arbic, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and G. R. Flierl
 P5.3Long Rossby wave basin-crossing time and the resonance of low-frequency basin modes  
Francois W. Primeau, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, BC, Canada
 P5.4Modification of wind-driven circulation and stratified spin-up at ocean fronts  extended abstract
Leif N. Thomas, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. B. Rhines
 P5.5An analytical solution of the ideal-fluid thermocline  
Rui Xin Huang, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA
 P5.6Splitting of subinertial coastal Kelvin waves at a gap  
Theodore S. Durland, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Qiu
 P5.7The effect of mesoscale ocean eddies on the thermocline and abyss  
Cara E. Cartwright, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis
P5.8Adjustment of unbalanced vortices in uniformly rotating and stratified fluids  
Rudolf C. Kloosterziel, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
P5.9Velocity probability density functions of a high resolution, quasi-geostrophic ocean model.  
Brett N. DiFrischia, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. Siegel and J. B. Weiss
P5.10The vertical structure of baroclinic eddies: theory and primitive equation numerical tests  
K. Shafer Smith, Princeton Univ/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
 P5.11Thermocline variability in the tropical Pacific  
Antonietta Capotondi, Climate Diagnostics Center, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Alexander and C. Deser
 P5.12To what extent are sea level variations due to the expansion or contraction of the water column?  extended abstract
Pedro Ripa, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
 P5.13Modes of variability of the Yucatan current  
Ana Julia Abascal, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico; and J. Sheinbaum, J. Candela, J. L. Ochoa, and A. Badan
 P5.14Understanding Global Warming: Tracking the Salt Oscillator  extended abstract
James R. Wilson, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Lab, Idaho Falls, ID
 P5.15Underlying Mechanisms of Decadal Thermohaline Variability  
M. Jeroen Molemaker, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. C. McWilliams
 P5.16Poster moved to oral session 7, new paper number 7.2A  
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday
Session 7 Thermohaline flows
Organizer: Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA
1:30 PMDiscussion  
1:40 PM7.1The Natural Variability of the Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation (Invited Presentation)  
J. McWilliams, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
7.2Steady Baroclinic Flow Through Ridges With Narrow Gaps  
Joseph Pedlosky, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA
2:14 PM7.2AA two layer model of a non diffusive thermocline (Formerly paper P5.16)  
Giulio Boccaletti, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2:29 PM7.3Self-sustained thermohaline oscillations in paleo oceans  extended abstract
Rong Zhang, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and M. Follows and J. Marshall
2:44 PM7.4Temperature-salinity correlations and spiciness in oceanic variability  
R. Saravanan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Danabasoglu, S. Doney, and J. McWilliams
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday
Coffee Break
 
3:30 PM-5:05 PM, Wednesday
Session 8 Low frequency variability
Organizer: Grant W. Branstator, NCAR, Boulder, CO
3:30 PM8.1The Dynamics of the PNA and NAO Lifecycles (Invited Presentation)  
Steven B. Feldstein, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA
4:05 PM8.2Accumulation, local instability, and the generation of atmospheric low frequency variability  
Kyle L. Swanson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
4:20 PM8.3Simulation of observed low-frequency anomalies using generalized barotropic models  extended abstract
Christos M. Mitas, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and W. Robinson
4:35 PM8.4An interdecadal mode of Northern Hemisphere storm track variations  extended abstract
Edmund K. M. Chang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
4:50 PMBreak  
 
5:05 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Session 8 Low Frequency Variability (Continued)
Organizer: Grant W. Branstator, NCAR, Boulder, CO
5:05 PM8.5Structure and evolution of the Annular Modes in an aquaplanet GCM  
Benjamin A. Cash, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
5:20 PM8.6Consequences of Nonlinearities on the Low-Frequency Behavior of an ACGM  extended abstract
Judith Berner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Branstator
5:35 PM8.7Dynamics of a two layer channel quasigeostrophic atmospheric model  
Sergey V. Kravtsov, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and A. W. Robertson and M. Ghil
5:50 PMDiscussion  
 
7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Wednesday
Conference Banquet
 
8:00 PM-8:15 PM, Wednesday
Session Haurwitz Lecture
8:00 PMThe circulation of the stratosphere  
R. Alan Plumb, MIT, Cambridge, MA
 
Thursday, 7 June 2001
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday
Poster Session 6 Storm Tracks/Strat-Trop interactions/Transport & Mixing—Eyeopener (Continental Breakfast)
 P6.1A qualitative model of storm tracks  
Isaac M. Held, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
 P6.2Storm track variations as seen in radiosonde observations and reanalysis data  extended abstract
Nili Harnik, Florida State University; and E. K. M. Chang
 P6.3Dual baroclinic jets and the organization of midlatitude storm tracks  
Terry Nathan, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and E. DeFonso
 P6.4Stratospheric Intrusions into the Tropical Troposphere  
Darryn W. Waugh, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and B. M. Funastu
 P6.5Vortex Dipole for an Interfacial Tropopause  
David J. Muraki, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada; and C. Snyder
 P6.6Poster has been moved to oral session 10, new paper number 10.4A  
 P6.7Signatures of the North Atlantic Oscillation on stratospheric ozone  
Yvan J. Orsolini, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway; and V. Limpasuvan
 P6.8A new look at eddy diffusivity  extended abstract
Noboru Nakamura, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 P6.9Comparison of the Global Transport Circulations from the NCEP Reanalysis and CCM3  
Kenneth P. Bowman, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and T. Erukhimova
P6.10Mixing from barotropic instability of the QBO westerly jet  
Emily Shuckburgh, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; and W. Norton
 P6.11A 15-year climatology of stratosphere-troposphere exchange and its link to potential vorticity streamers and cutoffs  extended abstract
Michael Sprenger, ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland; and H. Wernli and M. Bourqui
 P6.12Poster has been moved to oral session 9, new paper number 9.6A  
 
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday
Session 9 Transport and Mixing
Organizer: Noboru Nakamura, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL
10:00 AM9.1Atmospheric and Oceanic Tracer Transport (Invited Presentation)  
Darryn W. Waugh, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
9.2Quantifying transport in the troposphere and lower stratosphere  
Michael Greenslade, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and G. Esler and P. Haynes
10:35 AM9.3Tropospheric-stratospheric exchange of chemical species induced by midlatitude convective storms  
Gretchen L. Mullendore, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran and J. R. Holton
10:50 AM9.4Modeling material transport by oceanic circulation  
Pavel S. Berloff, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. C. McWilliams
11:05 AM9.5Cross-jet transport in quasi-geostrophic simulations  extended abstract
R. Lee Panetta, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. C. Collier
9.6Transport and mixing in the summer polar stratosphere  
Yvan J. Orsolini, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
11:20 AM9.6AIntermittent mixing, large-scale advection and stratospheric tracer distributions (formerly paper P6.12)  
Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
11:34 AMDiscussion  
 
12:00 PM-1:25 PM, Thursday
Lunch
 
1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Thursday
Session 9 Transport and Mixing (Continued)
Organizer: Darryn W. Waugh, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
1:30 PM9.7Extratropical control of tropical upwelling in the lower stratosphere  
William J. Randel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Garcia
1:45 PM9.8A Comparison of Wave-Induced Residual and Lagrangian Transport in the Stratosphere  extended abstract
Diane Pendlebury, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd
 
2:00 PM-3:05 PM, Thursday
Session 10 Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions
Organizer: Darryn W. Waugh, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
2:00 PM10.1Does the troposphere care about the stratosphere? (Invited Presentation)  
Walter A. Robinson, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL
2:35 PM10.2The short-term dynamic influence of the stratosphere on the troposphere during Northern Hemisphere winter  
Judith Perlwitz, Columbia University and NASA/GISS, New York, NY
2:50 PM10.3Stratospheric-Troposphere coupling during intraseasonal variations in the Arctic Oscillation  extended abstract
Brent A. McDaniel, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. X. Black
 
3:05 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break
 
3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday
Session 10 Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions (Continued)
Organizer: Robert X. Black, Georgia Tech., Atlanta, GA
10.4Annual cycle and trends of wave driving of the tropical lower Stratosphere  
W. A. Norton, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxon, United Kingdom; and A. Kerr-Munslow and E. F. Shuckburgh
3:30 PM10.4ATropospheric and equatorial influence on planetary wave amplitude in the stratosphere (formerly paper P6.6)  
Yongyun Hu, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. K. Tung
3:44 PM10.5Changes of the Stratospheric Circulation: Relationship to Changes of Ozone and Tropospheric Structure  
Murry Salby, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Callaghan
3:59 PM10.6The stratospheric influence on wave-mean flow interaction in the troposphere as seen in a quasi-linear vacillation model  
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton
4:14 PM10.7Role of forced planetary waves in the troposphere-stratosphere dynamical coupling  
Masakazu Taguchi, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan; and S. Yoden
4:29 PM10.8Diagnoses of the vertical structure of the tropical tropopause region  extended abstract
Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO
4:44 PMDiscussion  
 
5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Thursday
Poster Session 7 Large-scale dynamics of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system (Reception/Cash Bar)
P7.1Models of tropopause height and thermocline depth  
John Marshall, MIT, Cambridge, MA
 P7.2Thermal resonance of the atmosphere to SST anomalies. Implications for the Antartic circumpolar wave.  
Alain Colin de Verdiere, Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans, Brest, France
 P7.3Excitation of basin modes by ocean-atmosphere coupling  
Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and F. Paparella
 P7.4Low Frequency Modes of Tropical Ocean Dynamics  
Fei-Fei Jin, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
 P7.5Optimal Forcing Patterns of the North Atlantic  
Andrew M. Moore, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. F. Milliff and J. Weiss
 P7.6Spectral peaks, non-normality, and predictability in simple coupled systems  
P. Chang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Saravanan, F. Wang, and L. Ji
 P7.7Sensitivity of tropical subannual variability to model mixed-layer depth  extended abstract
Ian G. Watterson, CSIRO, Aspendale, Vic., Australia
 P7.8Trend in atmospheric angular momentum in a transient climate change simulation with greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing  
Klaus M. Weickmann, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and H. P. Huang and C. J. Hsu
 P7.9Impact of the Sea Surface Temperature on Regional Flood and Its Dynamic Analyses  
Qiuju Miao, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and X. Xu
 P7.10Atmosphere/Ocean Couplings That Influence Global Climate  extended abstract
James R. Wilson, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Lab, Idaho Falls, ID
 P7.11Global Coupled Modeling on the Expanded Spherical Cube  
Alistair Adcroft, MIT, Cambridge, MA
P7.12Air-sea interaction over the Maritime Continent and the TBO  
Harry Hendon, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO
 P7.13A GCM study of the impact of ocean-atmosphere interaction on the Arctic Oscillation  
Andrew W. Robertson, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
 
Friday, 8 June 2001
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Friday
Session 11 Storm Tracks and Wave Packets
Organizer: Kyle L. Swanson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
8:30 AM11.1 Developing wave packets in the North Pacific storm track  
Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
8:45 AM11.2On the Self-Organisation of Baroclinic Waves into Wave Packets  extended abstract
J. Gavin Esler, University College, London, United Kingdom
9:00 AM11.3Wave Packet Resonance: Instability of a localized jet  
Mankin Mak, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
9:15 AM11.4Zonally localized storm tracks in an idealized AGCM  extended abstract
Masaru Inatsu, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; and H. Mukougawa and S. P. Xie
9:30 AM11.5A detailed GCM study of the factors influencing the location and strength of the storm tracks  
Jeffrey H. Yin, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. S. Battisti
9:45 AMDiscussion  
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday
Coffee Break
 
10:30 AM-12:05 PM, Friday
Session 12 Large-scale dynamics of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system
Organizer: R. Saravanan, NCAR, Boulder, CO
10:30 AM12.1Observations and theories of large-scale dynamics of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system (Invited Presentation)  
Clara Deser, NCAR, Boulder, CO
11:05 AM12.2Forcing of the equatorial ocean by atmospheric Kelvin waves  
George N. Kiladis, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and K. H. Straub
11:20 AM12.3Application of entropy production extremal principles to simplified climate models  extended abstract
Takamitsu Ito, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and J. Marshall
11:35 AM12.4The global atmospheric angular momentum vector as an indicator of the interactions of atmosphere, ocean and earth  
Joseph Egger, Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany
11:50 AM12.5Dynamics of Atlantic SST anomalies and their interaction with the North Atlantic Oscillation  
Arnaud Czaja, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and J. Marshall and C. Herbaut
 
12:05 PM-1:30 PM, Friday
Lunch
 
1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Friday
Session 12 Large-scale dynamics of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system (Continued)
Organizer: George N. Kiladis, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM12.6Zonal wind vacillation and its interaction with the ocean: Implications for interannual variability and predictability  extended abstract
Ian G. Watterson, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic., Australia
1:45 PM12.7Tropical-extratropical interactions in an intermediate coupled model of the Pacific basin  
Amy B. Solomon, International Pacific Research Center/SOEST/University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and J. P. McCreary, R. Kleeman, and B. Klinger
2:00 PM12.8A "Heat Pump" Picture for the ENSO System  
De-Zheng Sun, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO
12.9Coupled dynamics of the Antartic Circumpolar Current and the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric annular mode  
Blanca Gallego, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and P. Cessi and J. C. McWilliams
2:14 PM12.10Adjoint analysis of merdional overturning sensitivity to wind stress forcing  extended abstract
Veronique Bugnion, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and C. Hill and P. Stone
2:29 PMDiscussion  
 

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