14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Session 18: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting

Sunday, 8 June 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 8 June 2003


Sun 7 June

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 8 June 2003


1
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Monday, 9 June 2003

6:30 AM-6:30 AM: Monday, 9 June 2003


1
MON 9 JUNE

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Monday, 9 June 2003


CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CONTINUES THROUGH FRIDAY JUNE 13

8:30 AM-8:45 AM: Monday, 9 June 2003


1
Welcoming Remarks
Speaker: Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, AMS President

8:45 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 9 June 2003


1
Geostrophic Turbulence
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology

Papers:
  8:45 AM
1.1
A Closure Theory for Quasigeostrophic Turbulence
Timothy DelSole, COLA, Calverton, MD

  9:00 AM
1.2
Estimates 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 AM
1.3
  9:30 AM
1.4
Interior dissipation of geostrophic flows through unbalanced instabilities
M. Jeroen Molemaker, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and J. C. McWilliams

  9:45 AM
1.5
Self-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, 9 June 2003


1
Coffee Break

10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Monday, 9 June 2003


2
Balance
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington

Papers:
  10:30 AM
2.1
A unified theory of small Rossby number and small Froude number balance
Simal Saujani, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd

Poster PDF (86.3 kB)
  10:45 AM
2.2
Inertia-gravity-wave generation by balanced motion
J. Vanneste, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Poster PDF (77.5 kB)
  11:00 AM
2.3
Balanced and unbalanced dynamics in upper-tropospheric jets
Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and A. I. Barcilon and T. A. Smith

Poster PDF (11.0 kB)
  11:15 AM
2.4
Balanced dynamics and four-dimensional data assimilation
Lisa J. Neef, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd and S. Polavarapu

Poster PDF (736.7 kB)

11:15 AM-1:30 PM: Monday, 9 June 2003


3
Vorticity and Potential Vorticity Dynamics
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology

Papers:
  11:15 AM
3.1
Observational analysis of balanced tropopause vortex asymmetries
Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. K. Canavan

  11:30 AM
3.2
A new look at anticyclogenesis
Stephen J. Colucci, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Poster PDF (51.4 kB)
  11:45 AM
3.3
Von Karman-type vortex streets and baroclinic jets on a two-layer beta-plane: Classification and critical scaling
Hartmut Borth, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; and V. Gryanik and D. Olbers

Poster PDF (72.5 kB)
  12:00 PM
3.4
Physical basis for empirical PV-streamfunction spectral relationships
Christos M. Mitas, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and W. A. Robinson

Poster PDF (142.8 kB)
  12:15 PM
Lunch Break

2:00 PM-2:45 PM: Monday, 9 June 2003


4
General Circulation Theory
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Walter A. Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers:
  2:00 PM
4.1
Energetics of a symmetric circulation with momentum constraints
Sorin Codoban, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd

Poster PDF (55.9 kB)
  2:14 PM
4.3
Isentropic zonal average formalism and the near-surface circulation
Tieh-Yong Koh, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. A. Plumb

Poster PDF (106.4 kB)
  2:29 PM
4.4
The tropopause and the thermal stratification in the extratropics of a dry atmosphere
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~tapio/papers/tropopause.html

Poster PDF (12.4 kB)

2:45 PM-3:15 PM: Monday, 9 June 2003


1
Coffee Break

3:15 PM-4:45 PM: Monday, 9 June 2003


5
Low Frequency Variability and Annular Modes
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Grant Branstator, NCAR

Papers:
 
5.1
Greenland and the Northern Hemisphere winter circulation

  3:16 PM
5.2
Mechanisms 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

  3:30 PM
5.3
The 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

  3:45 PM
5.4
Zonal asymmetries, teleconnections, and annular modes in a GCM
Benjamin A Cash, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. J. Kushner and G. K. Vallis

  4:00 PM
5.5
Dynamical feedbacks in the North Atlantic Oscillation and annular modes
Edwin P. Gerber, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis

  4:15 PM
5.6
Mechanisms 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

  4:30 PM
5.7

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 9 June 2003


1
Ice Breaker Reception in Poster session room

5:00 PM-6:30 PM: Monday, 9 June 2003


Poster Session 1
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Papers:
 
Review of Spectral Transfer in Inhomogeneous Turbulence for Atmosphere-Ocean System
Sukaran Ram Patel, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande-UFCG, Campina Grande, Brazil

 
Maximum entropy theory and the decay of 3D quasi-geostrophic turbulence
David A. Schecter, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Poster PDF (393.9 kB)
 
Vorticity dynamics of buoyant plumes in crossflows
Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Y. Hussaini, R. R. Linn, and S. L. Goodrick

Poster PDF (236.2 kB)
 
Hamiltonian description of idealized geophysical flows
Peter R. Bannon, Penn State University, University Park, PA

 
Dynamical assessment of midlatitude subseasonal variability in NASA/GSFC general circulation models
Dennis P. Robinson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. X. Black

 
Influences 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

8:29 AM-8:29 AM: Tuesday, 10 June 2003


1
TUE 10 JUNE

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Tuesday, 10 June 2003


1
Continental breakfast in poster session room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 10 June 2003


Poster Session 2
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Papers:
 
Boundary Effects in Potential Vorticity Dynamics
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and I. M. Held and S. T. Garner

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~tapio/publications.html

Poster PDF (13.0 kB)
 
The symmetrization rate of a geophysical vortex: extension of theory to large Rossby numbers
David A. Schecter, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and M. T. Montgomery

Poster PDF (337.7 kB)
 
Lee vortex formation by separation of potential vorticity sheets
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and I. M. Held and S. T. Garner

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~tapio/papers/gpv.html

Poster PDF (11.2 kB)
 
The 3D equilibration of a baroclinic jet: potential momentum diagnostics
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and R. S. Lindzen

Poster PDF (221.9 kB)
 
Baroclinic equilibration in zonally varying flows
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and E. K. M. Chang

 
Baroclinic equilibration and the maintenance of the momentum balance
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and R. S. Lindzen

Poster PDF (234.5 kB)

10:00 AM-11:30 AM: Tuesday, 10 June 2003


6
Midlatitude Dynamics
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Terry Nathan, University of California, Davis

Papers:
  10:00 AM
6.1
Why is there Mid-Winter Minimum of Storm Tracks?
Yi Deng, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and M. Mak

Poster PDF (241.1 kB)
  10:15 AM
6.2
  10:30 AM
6.3
Dynamics and predictability of anomalous storm tracks
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo

  10:45 AM
6.4
Eddy-driven jets from a mean-flow perspective
Walter A. Robinson, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Poster PDF (434.9 kB)
  11:00 AM
6.5
Implications 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

11:30 AM-3:45 PM: Tuesday, 10 June 2003


7
Stability of Flows
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Oliver Buhler, New York University

Papers:
  11:30 AM
7.1
Stability and evolution of dense currents on sloping topography
Bruce R Sutherland, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and J. Nault, K. Yewchuk, and G. E. Swaters

http://taylor.math.ualberta.ca/~bruce/research/gcrotate/

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
  11:45 AM
7.2
Destabilisation 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 PM
7.3
Internal wave generation due to large-scale instabilities on ocean currents
Marie-Pascale G. Lelong, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton

  12:15 PM
7.4
Simulation of inertial instability in a primitive equations model
D. Pendlebury, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton

Poster PDF (170.1 kB)
  12:30 PM
7.5
Instabilities in swirling boundary layers
David S. Nolan, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Poster PDF (114.7 kB)
 
7.6
Simple frontal models of baroclinic instability

  1:00 PM
7.7
Extratropical Intra-Seasonal Variability in a Minimal Model
Mankin Mak, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, Urbana, IL

Poster PDF (195.6 kB)
  1:15 PM
7.8
Linearly Stable Localized Atmospheric Features Inserted into Nonlinear Cyclogenesis
Richard Grotjahn, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and D. Hodyss

  1:45 PM
Lunch Break

  3:15 PM
Coffee Break

3:45 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 10 June 2003


8
Small-scale Waves and Mean Flows
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Timothy DelSole, COLA

Papers:
  3:45 PM
8.1
Internal Wave Generation from a Turbulent Layer
K. Dohan, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. R. Sutherland

Poster PDF (949.0 kB)
  4:00 PM
8.2
Internal Wave Excitation by Gravity Currents
Morris R Flynn, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. R. Sutherland

Poster PDF (443.4 kB)
  4:15 PM
8.3
On the Appearance of Inertia–Gravity Waves on the North-Easterly Side of an Anticyclone
Dieter Peters, Institut fuer Atmosphaerenphysik an der Universitaet Rostock, Kuehlungsborn, Mecklenburg-Vorp, Germany; and P. Hoffmann and M. Alpers

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
  4:30 PM
8.4
Wave spectrum generated during hydrostatic and geostrophic adjustment
Jeffrey M. Chagnon, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and P. R. Bannon

  4:45 PM
8.5
The propagation of small-scale gravity waves in a slowly varying background field
Ulrich Achatz, Leibniz-Institut fuer Atmosphaerenphysik an der Universitaet Rostock, Kuehlungsborn, Germany

Poster PDF (898.4 kB)
  5:00 PM
8.6
New Interactions between Gravity Waves and Mean Flows
O. Buhler, New York University, New York, NY; and M. McIntyre

  5:15 PM
8.7
Buoyancy oscillations
Peter R. Bannon, Penn State University, University Park, PA

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Tuesday, 10 June 2003


Poster Session 3
Waves and Mean Flows
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Papers:
 
A topographic drag closure with analytically derived base flux
Stephen T. Garner, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ

Poster PDF (126.1 kB)
 
Constraints on gravity-wave-drag parameterization schemes for simulating the quasi-biennial oscillation
Lucy J. Campbell, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd

Poster PDF (392.7 kB)
 
 
The 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

 
ON THE STRUCTURE OF WESTERLY JETS
Seok-Woo Son, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and S. Lee

Wednesday, 11 June 2003

8:29 AM-8:29 AM: Wednesday, 11 June 2003


1
WED 11 JUNE

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Wednesday, 11 June 2003


Continental breakfast in poster session room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 11 June 2003


Poster Session 4
Tropical Dynamics
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Papers:
 
Large-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

 
A baseline statistical model for tropical Pacific wind stress anomalies
Andrew T. Wittenberg, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and M. J. Harrison

http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~atw/research/conf/aofd14/

Poster PDF (766.1 kB)
 
A Simple Model of Tropical Precipitation Response to SST
Dargan M. Frierson, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and I. M. Held

 
Nonlinear 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, 11 June 2003


9
Planetary Waves and Tropical-Extratropical Interaction
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Edmund K. M. Chang, SUNY

Papers:
  10:00 AM
9.1
  10:15 AM
9.2
Tropical-Extratropical Interactions Between Inertially Unstable Regions and the Aleutian High
John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and V. L. Harvey

  10:30 AM
9.3
Nonlinear planetary-wave reflection in an atmospheric GCM
Christopher C. Walker, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and G. Magnusdottir

  10:45 AM
9.4
Complex 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, 11 June 2003


10
Tropical Waves
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University

Papers:
  11:00 AM
The 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 AM
The interaction of waves and convection in the tropics
Richard S. Lindzen, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Poster PDF (171.4 kB)
  11:30 AM
  11:45 AM
Propagation of convective-gravity waves in a varying environment.
Olivier Pauluis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

  12:00 PM
Systematic Multi-Scale Models for the Tropics
Rupert Klein, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany; and A. Majda

  12:15 PM
Nonlinear equatorial waves: Rossby vortices and Kelvin fronts
John P. Boyd, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Poster PDF (440.1 kB)
  12:30 PM
Lunch Break

2:00 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 11 June 2003


11
Tropical Circulations
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Organizer: Amy B. Solomon, NOAA/ERL/CDC

Papers:
  2:00 PM
The Variability of Modelled Tropical Precipitation
John F Scinocca, MSC, Victoria, BC, Canada

  2:15 PM
Satellite-based observations of the SPCZ
Stephen B. Cocks, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and R. L. Panetta

Poster PDF (96.3 kB)
  2:30 PM
ITCZ breakdown in 3-dimensional simulation
Chia-chi Wang, University of California, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir

 
11.4
A simple moist hadley cell model

  2:45 PM
Tropical cyclogenesis as a catastrophe
Winston C. Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Chen and W. K. Tao

Poster PDF (114.7 kB)
  3:00 PM
  3:15 PM
Coffee Break

3:45 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 11 June 2003


12
Atmosphere-ocean interaction
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: John F Scinocca, MSC

Papers:
  3:45 PM
Air-Wave-Sea Interaction and Its Application to Ocean Circulation-Wave Coupling
Le Ly, NPS, Monterey, CA; and P. Luong, F. Aikman III, and M. Batteen

Poster PDF (194.0 kB)
  4:00 PM
A simple model of SST hot spots
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY; and H. Gildor

  4:15 PM
  4:30 PM
Pacific Decadal Variability due to Tropical-Extratropical Interactions
Amy B. Solomon, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Alexander

  4:45 PM
zthe Effect of Subtropical/Extratropical cooling on ENSO: a numerical study
De-Zheng Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and T. Zhang and S. I. Shin

Poster PDF (466.9 kB)

7:00 PM-7:00 PM: Wednesday, 11 June 2003


Banquet

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 11 June 2003


Banquet Speaker: Dr Prashant Sardeshmukh, NOAA Climate Diagnostic Center, Boulder, CO

Thursday, 12 June 2003

8:29 AM-8:29 AM: Thursday, 12 June 2003


1
THUR 12 JUNE

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Thursday, 12 June 2003


Continental breakfast in poster session room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 12 June 2003


Poster Session 5
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics III
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Papers:
 
Signatures of climate patterns upon stratospheric ozone
Yvan J. Orsolini, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway; and F. J. Doblas-Reyes

 
P5.5
Bouyancy Driven Equatorial Flows and Basin Filling Modes

 
Decomposition of the Deacon cell
Jonas Nycander, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; and K. Döös

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Thursday, 12 June 2003


13
Adjoint Methods and Numerical Methods
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Philip Cunningham, Florida State University

Papers:
  10:00 AM
Synoptic and dynamical interpretations of adjoint-derived sensitivity structure and evolution
Daryl T. Kleist, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan

http://helios.aos.wisc.edu

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)
  10:15 AM
Evolution of analysis error and adjoint-based optimal perturbation in a quasigeostrophic model
Hyun Mee Kim, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan

Poster PDF (251.7 kB)
  10:30 AM
Multiresolution 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, 12 June 2003


14
Oceanic Eddies
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Francois W. Primeau, University of California, Irvine

Papers:
  10:45 AM
The eddy-driven thermocline
Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and M. Fantini

  11:00 AM
The effect of mesoscale eddies on the structure of the thermocline
Cara C. Henning, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis

  11:15 AM
The role of eddy fluxes in the dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Richard Karsten, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada

Poster PDF (114.9 kB)
  11:30 AM
Reevaluating 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

 
14.5
Linear long wave eigenmodes in eddy resolving basins

  11:46 AM
Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Thursday, 12 June 2003


15
Ocean dynamics
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. Of California

Papers:
  1:30 PM
An 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

  2:15 PM
A 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, 12 June 2003


16
Transport and mixing
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Darryn Waugh, The Johns Hopkins University

Papers:
  2:30 PM
Diagnosing transport and mixing in unsteady flows using transit time distributions
Hong Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and T. W. N. Haine and D. W. Waugh

Poster PDF (236.5 kB)
  2:45 PM
  3:00 PM
Transport of Air Pollution with Photochemical Reaction in Planetary Boundary Layer
Sukaran Ram Patel, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande-UFCG, Campina Grande, Brazil

  3:15 PM
Comparison 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

  3:30 PM
Tracer mixing near the tropopause via Kelvin-Helmholtz roll-up of potential vorticity layers
Gavin Esler, University College London, London, United Kingdom; and L. Polvani

  3:45 PM
Coffee Break

4:15 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 12 June 2003


17
Upper Tropospheric and Tropopause Dynamics
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Richard K. Scott, Columbia University

Papers:
  4:15 PM
A Uniform PV Framework for Balanced Dynamics
David J. Muraki, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; and G. J. Hakim and C. Snyder

  4:30 PM
Potential vorticity inversion of intrusion events in the tropical upper troposphere
Beatriz Funatsu, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh

  4:45 PM
Static Stability in the Extratropical Tropopause Region
Volkmar Wirth, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Germany

http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Physik/IPA/forschung/ag_wirth/ps/2003tpstab.ps

Poster PDF (369.1 kB)

Friday, 13 June 2003

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Friday, 13 June 2003


1
FRI 13 JUNE


Panel Discussion 1
Open Forum
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

9:30 AM-12:30 PM: Friday, 13 June 2003


18
Stratosphere-troposphere interaction
Sponsor: 14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University

Papers:
  9:30 AM
Stratospheric memory: effects on the troposphere
Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and D. B. Stephenson, T. J. Dunkerton, D. W. J. Thompson, and A. O'Neill

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
  9:45 AM
Upward 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 AM
Vertical 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

  10:15 AM
Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions: Case studies of the NAM
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. A. McDaniel

  10:30 AM
Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions: Intraseasonal variations in the NAM
Brent A. McDaniel, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. X. Black

  10:45 AM
The sensitivity of stratospheric vacillation cycles to the tropospheric annular mode
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton

  11:00 AM
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a relatively simple AGCM
Paul J Kushner, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and L. M. Polvani

  11:15 AM
Stratospheric influence on the troposphere by planetary wave reflection
Nili Harnik, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and J. Perlwitz

  11:30 AM
The 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

  11:45 AM
A very deep ozone minihole in the Northern Hemisphere stratosphere at mid-latitudes during the winter of 2000
N. Semane, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, Paris Cedex 05, France; and H. Teitelbaum and C. Basdevant

Poster PDF (239.5 kB)
  12:00 PM
Coffee Break