14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (Expanded View)

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Sunday, 8 June 2003
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday
1 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
 
Monday, 9 June 2003
7:30 AM, Monday
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CONTINUES THROUGH FRIDAY JUNE 13
 
8:30 AM-8:45 AM, Monday
1 Welcoming Remarks
Speaker: Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, AMS President, Washington, DC
 
8:45 AM-10:00 AM, Monday
Session 1 Geostrophic Turbulence
Chair: Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
8:45 AM1.1A Closure Theory for Quasigeostrophic Turbulence  
Timothy DelSole, COLA, Calverton, MD
9:00 AM1.2Estimates of the energy flux between length scales of oceanic mesoscale eddies  
Robert Bruce Scott, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX
9:15 AM1.3Vertical structure of potential vorticity fluxes in weakly (and strongly) unstable flows  extended abstract
K. Shafer Smith, New York University, New York, NY
9:30 AM1.4Interior dissipation of geostrophic flows through unbalanced instabilities  
M. Jeroen Molemaker, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and J. C. McWilliams
9:45 AM1.5Self-similarity of vorticity dynamics in decaying CHM turbulence  
Theodore G. Shepherd, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. Iwayama and T. Watanabe
 
10:00 AM-8:00 PM, Monday
1 Coffee Break
 
10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Monday
Session 2 Balance
Chair: Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
10:30 AM2.1A unified theory of small Rossby number and small Froude number balance  extended abstract
Simal Saujani, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd
10:45 AM2.2Inertia-gravity-wave generation by balanced motion  extended abstract
J. Vanneste, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
11:00 AM2.3Balanced and unbalanced dynamics in upper-tropospheric jets  extended abstract
Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and A. I. Barcilon and T. A. Smith
11:15 AM2.4Balanced dynamics and four-dimensional data assimilation  extended abstract
Lisa J. Neef, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd and S. Polavarapu
 
11:15 AM-1:30 PM, Monday
Session 3 Vorticity and Potential Vorticity Dynamics
Chair: Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
11:15 AM3.1Observational analysis of balanced tropopause vortex asymmetries  
Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. K. Canavan
11:30 AM3.2A new look at anticyclogenesis  extended abstract
Stephen J. Colucci, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
11:45 AM3.3Von Karman-type vortex streets and baroclinic jets on a two-layer beta-plane: Classification and critical scaling  extended abstract
Hartmut Borth, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; and V. Gryanik and D. Olbers
12:00 PM3.4Physical basis for empirical PV-streamfunction spectral relationships  extended abstract
Christos M. Mitas, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and W. A. Robinson
12:15 PMLunch Break  
 
2:00 PM-2:45 PM, Monday
Session 4 General Circulation Theory
Chair: Walter A. Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
2:00 PM4.1Energetics of a symmetric circulation with momentum constraints  extended abstract
Sorin Codoban, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd
2:14 PM4.2Paper Moved to Session 11, New Paper number 11.6  
2:15 PM4.3Isentropic zonal average formalism and the near-surface circulation  extended abstract
Tieh-Yong Koh, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. A. Plumb
2:30 PM4.4The tropopause and the thermal stratification in the extratropics of a dry atmosphere  extended abstract
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
 
2:45 PM-3:15 PM, Monday
1 Coffee Break
 
3:15 PM-4:45 PM, Monday
Session 5 Low Frequency Variability and Annular Modes
Chair: Grant Branstator, NCAR, Boulder, CO
5.1Greenland and the Northern Hemisphere winter circulation  
G. N. Petersen, Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Univ. of Iceland, Oslo, Iceland; and J. E. Kristjánsson and H. Ólafsson
3:15 PM5.2Mechanisms for the NAO Responses to the North Atlantic SST Tripole  
Shiling Peng, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson and S. Li
3:29 PM5.3The Modelled Response of the Atmospheric winter Circulation to North Atlantic and Sea-Ice Anomalies Corresponding to Multidecadal Trends  
Gudrun Magnusdottir, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and R. Saravanan and C. Deser
3:44 PM5.4Zonal asymmetries, teleconnections, and annular modes in a GCM  
Benjamin A Cash, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. J. Kushner and G. K. Vallis
3:59 PM5.5Dynamical feedbacks in the North Atlantic Oscillation and annular modes  
Edwin P. Gerber, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis
4:14 PM5.6Mechanisms of hemispherically symmetric climate variability  
Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and N. Harnik, Y. Kushnir, and W. A. Robinson
4:29 PM5.7Formulation and validation of a nonlinear stochastic model for atmospheric low-frequency variability  
Judith Berner, NCAR, Boulder, CO and Univ. of Bonn, Boulder, CO
 
5:00 PM, Monday
1 Ice Breaker Reception in Poster session room
 
5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Monday
Poster Session 1 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I
 P1.1Review of Spectral Transfer in Inhomogeneous Turbulence for Atmosphere-Ocean System  
Sukaran Ram Patel, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande-UFCG, Campina Grande, Brazil
 P1.2Maximum entropy theory and the decay of 3D quasi-geostrophic turbulence  extended abstract
David A. Schecter, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
 P1.3Vertical penetration of potential vorticity flux in the homogeneous, quasigeostrophic baroclinic turbulence  
Noboru Nakamura, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 P1.4Vorticity dynamics of buoyant plumes in crossflows  extended abstract
Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Y. Hussaini, R. R. Linn, and S. L. Goodrick
 P1.5Hamiltonian description of idealized geophysical flows  
Peter R. Bannon, Penn State University, University Park, PA
 P1.6Dynamical assessment of midlatitude subseasonal variability in NASA/GSFC general circulation models  
Dennis P. Robinson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. X. Black
 P1.7Influences of baroclinic eddies on the strength of the Hadley cell  
Christopher C. Walker, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider
 
Tuesday, 10 June 2003
8:30 AM, Tuesday
1 Continental breakfast in poster session room
 
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday
Poster Session 2 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II
 P2.1Boundary Effects in Potential Vorticity Dynamics  extended abstract
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and I. M. Held and S. T. Garner
 P2.2The symmetrization rate of a geophysical vortex: extension of theory to large Rossby numbers  extended abstract
David A. Schecter, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and M. T. Montgomery
 P2.3Lee vortex formation by separation of potential vorticity sheets  extended abstract
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and I. M. Held and S. T. Garner
 P2.4The 3D equilibration of a baroclinic jet: potential momentum diagnostics  extended abstract
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and R. S. Lindzen
 P2.5Baroclinic equilibration in zonally varying flows  
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and E. K. M. Chang
 P2.6Baroclinic equilibration and the maintenance of the momentum balance  extended abstract
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and R. S. Lindzen
 
10:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday
Session 6 Midlatitude Dynamics
Chair: Terry Nathan, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
10:00 AM6.1Why is there Mid-Winter Minimum of Storm Tracks?  extended abstract
Yi Deng, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and M. Mak
10:15 AM6.2Midwinter suppression and interannual variability of the Pacific storm track: Examples of eddy-mean flow coupling?  
Jeffrey H. Yin, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh
10:30 AM6.3Dynamics and predictability of anomalous storm tracks  
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo
10:45 AM6.4Eddy-driven jets from a mean-flow perspective  extended abstract
Walter A. Robinson, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
11:00 AM6.5Implications of the Shape of Atmospheric Eddies  
Ming Cai, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Yang, H. M. van den Dool, and V. E. Kousky
11:15 AM6.6The baroclinic growth/barotropic decay paradigm -- application to growth and decay of wave packets  
Edmund K. M. Chang, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
 
11:30 AM-3:45 PM, Tuesday
Session 7 Stability of Flows
Chair: Oliver Buhler, New York University, New York, NY
11:30 AM7.1Stability and evolution of dense currents on sloping topography  extended abstract
Bruce R Sutherland, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and J. Nault, K. Yewchuk, and G. E. Swaters
11:45 AM7.2Destabilisation of barotropic shear flows by small-scale topography  
Eugene S. Benilov, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; and J. Nycander and D. G. Dritschel
12:00 PMLunch Break  
1:30 PM7.3Internal wave generation due to large-scale instabilities on ocean currents  
Marie-Pascale G. Lelong, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton
1:45 PM7.4Simulation of inertial instability in a primitive equations model  extended abstract
D. Pendlebury, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton
2:00 PM7.5Instabilities in swirling boundary layers  extended abstract
David S. Nolan, University of Miami, Miami, FL
7.6Simple frontal models of baroclinic instability  extended abstract
Mateusz K. Reszka, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. E. Swaters
2:15 PM7.7Extratropical Intra-Seasonal Variability in a Minimal Model  extended abstract
Mankin Mak, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, Urbana, IL
2:30 PM7.8Linearly Stable Localized Atmospheric Features Inserted into Nonlinear Cyclogenesis  
Richard Grotjahn, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and D. Hodyss
2:45 PM7.9Dynamics of isolated anomalies in zonally varying baroclinic flow: solitary waves, nonlinear stability, and conservation laws  extended abstract
Daniel Hodyss, University of California, Davis, CA; and T. Nathan
3:00 PMCoffee Break  
 
3:45 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Session 8 Small-scale Waves and Mean Flows
Chair: Timothy DelSole, COLA, Calverton, MD
3:45 PM8.1Internal Wave Generation from a Turbulent Layer  extended abstract
K. Dohan, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. R. Sutherland
4:00 PM8.2Internal Wave Excitation by Gravity Currents  extended abstract
Morris R Flynn, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. R. Sutherland
4:15 PM8.3On the Appearance of Inertia–Gravity Waves on the North-Easterly Side of an Anticyclone  extended abstract
Dieter Peters, Institut fuer Atmosphaerenphysik an der Universitaet Rostock, Kuehlungsborn, Mecklenburg-Vorp, Germany; and P. Hoffmann and M. Alpers
4:30 PM8.4Wave spectrum generated during hydrostatic and geostrophic adjustment  
Jeffrey M. Chagnon, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and P. R. Bannon
4:45 PM8.5The propagation of small-scale gravity waves in a slowly varying background field  extended abstract
Ulrich Achatz, Leibniz-Institut fuer Atmosphaerenphysik an der Universitaet Rostock, Kuehlungsborn, Germany
5:00 PM8.6New Interactions between Gravity Waves and Mean Flows  
O. Buhler, New York University, New York, NY; and M. McIntyre
5:15 PM8.7Buoyancy oscillations  
Peter R. Bannon, Penn State University, University Park, PA
 
5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Tuesday
Poster Session 3 Waves and Mean Flows
 P3.1A topographic drag closure with analytically derived base flux  extended abstract
Stephen T. Garner, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
 P3.2Constraints on gravity-wave-drag parameterization schemes for simulating the quasi-biennial oscillation  extended abstract
Lucy J. Campbell, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd
 P3.3The role of the mean flow and gravity wave forcing in the observed seasonal variability of the migrating diurnal tide  
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA
 P3.4On the connection between coherent structures and oscillatory wave packets in large-scale atmospheric flow  extended abstract
Daniel Hodyss, University of California, Davis, CA; and T. Nathan
 P3.5The effects of variations in meridional jet structure on the midwinter Pacific stormtrack.  
Nili Harnik, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and E. K. M. Chang
 P3.6ON THE STRUCTURE OF WESTERLY JETS  
Seok-Woo Son, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and S. Lee
 
Wednesday, 11 June 2003
8:30 AM, Wednesday
Continental breakfast in poster session room
 
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday
Poster Session 4 Tropical Dynamics
 P4.1Large-scale meteorology and deep convection during TRMM KWAJEX  
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY; and S. Yuter, C. S. Bretherton, and G. Kiladis
 P4.2A baseline statistical model for tropical Pacific wind stress anomalies  extended abstract
Andrew T. Wittenberg, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and M. J. Harrison
 P4.3A Simple Model of Tropical Precipitation Response to SST  
Dargan M. Frierson, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and I. M. Held
 P4.4Nonlinear shallow water model with weak temperature gradient approximation  
Bo Zhou, Columbia University, new york, NY; and A. H. Sobel
 
10:00 AM-11:00 AM, Wednesday
Session 9 Planetary Waves and Tropical-Extratropical Interaction
Chair: Edmund K. M. Chang, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
10:00 AM9.1Remote Response to Tropical Heating via the Subtropical Jet Waveguide  
Grant Branstator, NCAR, Boulder, CO
10:15 AM9.2Tropical-Extratropical Interactions Between Inertially Unstable Regions and the Aleutian High  
John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and V. L. Harvey
10:30 AM9.3Nonlinear planetary-wave reflection in an atmospheric GCM  
Christopher C. Walker, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and G. Magnusdottir
10:45 AM9.4Complex Rossby Wave Behavior Induced by Stochastic Parameterizations  
Philip Sura, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman, C. Penland, and P. Sardeshmukh
 
11:00 AM-2:00 PM, Wednesday
Session 10 Tropical Waves
Chair: Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY
11:00 AM10.1The Nonlinear Interaction of Barotropic and Equatorial Baroclinic Rossby Waves  
Andrew Majda, New York Univ., Courant Institute of Math. Sciences, Center for Atmos./Ocean Science, New York, NY; and J. A. Biello
11:15 AM10.2The interaction of waves and convection in the tropics  extended abstract
Richard S. Lindzen, MIT, Cambridge, MA
11:30 AM10.3A model for convectively coupled tropical waves: nonlinearity, rotation, comparison with observations, and stochastic parametrization of CIN  
Boualem Khouider, Courant Institute, New York University, New York, NY; and A. A. Majda
11:45 AM10.4Propagation of convective-gravity waves in a varying environment.  
Olivier Pauluis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
12:00 PMLunch Break  
1:30 PM10.5Systematic Multi-Scale Models for the Tropics  
Rupert Klein, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany; and A. Majda
1:45 PM10.6Nonlinear equatorial waves: Rossby vortices and Kelvin fronts  extended abstract
John P. Boyd, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 
2:00 PM-3:45 PM, Wednesday
Session 11 Tropical Circulations
Organizer: Amy B. Solomon, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO
2:00 PM11.1The Variability of Modelled Tropical Precipitation  
John F Scinocca, MSC, Victoria, BC, Canada
2:15 PM11.2Satellite-based observations of the SPCZ  extended abstract
Stephen B. Cocks, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and R. L. Panetta
2:30 PM11.3ITCZ breakdown in 3-dimensional simulation  
Chia-chi Wang, University of California, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir
11.4A simple moist hadley cell model  
Lorenzo M. Polvani, Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. H. Sobel and J. D. Neelin
2:44 PM11.5Tropical cyclogenesis as a catastrophe  extended abstract
Winston C. Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Chen and W. K. Tao
2:59 PM11.6The concept of potential momentum and its applications for the extratropical circulation (Formerly Paper 4.2)  extended abstract
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and R. S. Lindzen
3:14 PMCoffee Break  
 
3:45 PM-5:15 PM, Wednesday
Session 12 Atmosphere-ocean interaction
Chair: John F Scinocca, MSC, Victoria, BC Canada
3:45 PM12.1Air-Wave-Sea Interaction and Its Application to Ocean Circulation-Wave Coupling  extended abstract
Le Ly, NPS, Monterey, CA; and P. Luong, F. Aikman, and M. Batteen
4:00 PM12.2A simple model of SST hot spots  
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY; and H. Gildor
4:15 PM12.3Thermodynamic coupling and predictability of tropical sea surface temperature  extended abstract
R. Saravanan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Chang
4:30 PM12.4Pacific Decadal Variability due to Tropical-Extratropical Interactions  
Amy B. Solomon, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Alexander
4:45 PM12.5zthe Effect of Subtropical/Extratropical cooling on ENSO: a numerical study  extended abstract
De-Zheng Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and T. Zhang and S. I. Shin
5:00 PM12.6Mechanisms controlling mean SST gradient in a coupled Ocean - Atmosphere GCM  
Arnaud Czaja, MIT, Cambridge, MA
 
7:00 PM, Wednesday
Banquet
 
7:30 PM, Wednesday
Banquet Speaker: Dr Prashant Sardeshmukh, NOAA Climate Diagnostic Center, Boulder, CO
 
Thursday, 12 June 2003
8:30 AM, Thursday
Continental breakfast in poster session room
 
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday
Poster Session 5 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics III
 P5.1Potential Vorticity Intrusion Index and Climate Variability of Surface Temperature  
Ming Cai, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
 P5.2Interactions between synoptic-scale and mesoscale eddies near the extratropical tropopause  
John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
 P5.3Forced planetary waves, stratospheric ozone and pseudo-critical levels: Ingredients for the stratospheric forcing of the troposphere  extended abstract
Terry Nathan, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and E. Cordero
 P5.4Signatures of climate patterns upon stratospheric ozone  
Yvan J. Orsolini, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway; and F. J. Doblas-Reyes
P5.5Bouyancy Driven Equatorial Flows and Basin Filling Modes  
Dennis W. Moore, PMEL, Seattle, WA
 P5.6Decomposition of the Deacon cell  
Jonas Nycander, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; and K. Döös
 P5.7Three dimensional dynamics of the subsurface countercurrents and equatorial thermostad. Part II: Influence of the large-scale ventilation and of equatorial winds.  
Frederic M. Marin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and R. Schopp and B. L. Hua
 
10:00 AM-10:45 AM, Thursday
Session 13 Adjoint Methods and Numerical Methods
Chair: Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
10:00 AM13.1Synoptic and dynamical interpretations of adjoint-derived sensitivity structure and evolution  extended abstract
Daryl T. Kleist, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan
10:15 AM13.2Evolution of analysis error and adjoint-based optimal perturbation in a quasigeostrophic model  extended abstract
Hyun Mee Kim, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan
10:30 AM13.3Multiresolution Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics  
Aime' fournier, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and G. Beylkin and V. Cheruvu
 
10:45 AM-1:15 PM, Thursday
Session 14 Oceanic Eddies
Chair: Francois W. Primeau, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
10:45 AM14.1The eddy-driven thermocline  
Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and M. Fantini
11:00 AM14.2The effect of mesoscale eddies on the structure of the thermocline  
Cara C. Henning, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis
11:15 AM14.3The role of eddy fluxes in the dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current  extended abstract
Richard Karsten, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
11:30 AM14.4Reevaluating the Roles of Eddies in the Barotropic Multiple-Gyre Ocean Model  
Baylor Fox-Kemper, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering, Cambridge, MA
14.5Linear long wave eigenmodes in eddy resolving basins  
Matthew S. Spydell, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and P. Cessi
11:45 AMLunch Break  
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Thursday
Session 15 Ocean dynamics
Chair: Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA
1:30 PM15.1An asymptotic theory for the interaction of waves and currents in shallow coastal waters  
James C. McWilliams, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. M. Restrepo
1:45 PM15.2Three-dimensional dynamics of the subsurface countercurrents and equatorial thermostad. Part I: Formulation of the problem and generic properties.  
Bach Lien Hua, IFREMER, Plouzane, France; and F. M. Marin and R. Schopp
2:00 PM15.3Kuroshio Penetrations into the South China Sea: Multiple States, Hysteresis, and Predictability  extended abstract
Vitalii A. Sheremet, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA
2:15 PM15.4A forward model of global ocean tides and tidal dissipation present and past  
Brian K. Arbic, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. Garner
 
2:30 PM-4:15 PM, Thursday
Session 16 Transport and mixing
Chair: Darryn Waugh, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2:30 PM16.1Diagnosing transport and mixing in unsteady flows using transit time distributions  extended abstract
Hong Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and T. W. N. Haine and D. W. Waugh
2:45 PM16.2Characterizing transport timescales between the surface mixed layer and the deep ocean with an OGCM and its adjoint  extended abstract
Francois W. Primeau, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
3:00 PMCoffee Break  
3:30 PM16.3Transport of Air Pollution with Photochemical Reaction in Planetary Boundary Layer  
Sukaran Ram Patel, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande-UFCG, Campina Grande, Brazil
3:45 PM16.4Comparison of Global-Scale Transport in the NCEP Reanalysis and NCAR CCM3  
Kenneth P. Bowman, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and T. L. Erukhimova
4:00 PM16.5Tracer mixing near the tropopause via Kelvin-Helmholtz roll-up of potential vorticity layers  
Gavin Esler, University College London, London, United Kingdom; and L. Polvani
 
4:15 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday
Session 17 Upper Tropospheric and Tropopause Dynamics
Chair: Richard K. Scott, Columbia University, New York, NY
4:15 PM17.1A Uniform PV Framework for Balanced Dynamics  
David J. Muraki, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; and G. J. Hakim and C. Snyder
4:30 PM17.2Potential vorticity inversion of intrusion events in the tropical upper troposphere  
Beatriz Funatsu, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh
4:45 PM17.3Static Stability in the Extratropical Tropopause Region  extended abstract
Volkmar Wirth, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Germany
 
Friday, 13 June 2003
8:30 AM, Friday
Panel Discussion 1 Open Forum
 
9:30 AM-12:30 PM, Friday
Session 18 Stratosphere-troposphere interaction
Chair: Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University, New York, NY
9:30 AM18.1Stratospheric memory: effects on the troposphere  extended abstract
Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and D. B. Stephenson, T. J. Dunkerton, D. W. J. Thompson, and A. O'Neill
9:45 AM18.2Upward Wave Flux as a Precursor to Extreme Stratospheric Events and its Connection to Anomalous Weather Regimes  
Darryn Waugh, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and L. Polvani
10:00 AMCoffee Break  
10:30 AM18.3Vertical structures of annular-mode variability and the contrasting roles of eddy momentum and heat fluxes  
Timothy J. Dunkerton, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and M. P. Baldwin and D. A. Ortland
10:45 AM18.4Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions: Case studies of the NAM  
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. A. McDaniel
11:00 AM18.5Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions: Intraseasonal variations in the NAM  
Brent A. McDaniel, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. X. Black
11:15 AM18.6The sensitivity of stratospheric vacillation cycles to the tropospheric annular mode  
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton
11:30 AM18.7Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a relatively simple AGCM  
Paul J Kushner, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and L. M. Polvani
11:45 AM18.8Stratospheric influence on the troposphere by planetary wave reflection  
Nili Harnik, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and J. Perlwitz
12:00 PM18.9The influence of vortex edge width on Rossby wave breaking  
Richard K. Scott, Columbia University, New York, NY; and D. G. Dritschel, L. M. Polvani, and D. W. Waugh
12:15 PM18.10A very deep ozone minihole in the Northern Hemisphere stratosphere at mid-latitudes during the winter of 2000  extended abstract
N. Semane, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, Paris Cedex 05, France; and H. Teitelbaum and C. Basdevant
 

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