14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Session 10: Tropical Waves

Wednesday, 11 June 2003: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
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