Session 4 |
| | Waves, Stability, and the General Circulation |
| | Organizer: Peter Bannon, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA
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| 10:00 AM | 4.1 | The 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 AM | 4.2 | Simple 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 AM | 4.3 | Nonmodal growth in spherical geometry 
Cris Castello, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and R. Grotjahn |
| 10:45 AM | 4.4 | Localized anomalies, Rossby wave-guides and baroclinic instability
Sébastien Dirren, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies |
| 11:00 AM | 4.5 | Wavelet 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 AM | 4.6 | The effect of reflecting surfaces on the vertical structure and variability of stratospheric planetary waves
Nili Harnik, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL and MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen |
| 11:30 AM | 4.7 | On the effect of Rossby wave breaking on vertically propagating disturbances
Constantine Giannitsis, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen |
| 11:45 AM | 4.8 | Dynamics of isolated anomalies in zonally varying jet streams
Daniel Hodyss, University of California, Davis, CA; and T. Nathan |