Session 4 Waves, Stability, and the General Circulation

Tuesday, 5 June 2001: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Organizer:
Peter Bannon, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA

Papers:
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
11:15 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

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