Session 5 |
| General Middle Atmosphere |
| Chairs: Anne R. Douglass, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Darryn W. Waugh, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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| 8:30 AM | | Introductory Remarks
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| 8:35 AM | 5.2 | An updated assessment of stratospheric temperature trends (Invited Speaker) William J. Randel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Shine, D. W. J. Thompson, and -. SPARC Working Group On Stratospheric Temperature Trends |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Trends in the strength of the Brewer-Dobson circulation and the wintertime Arctic ozone build-up Feng Li, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Austin and R. J. Wilson |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Modeling the downward influence of stratospheric final warming events Lantao Sun, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and W. A. Robinson |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | A new look at stratospheric sudden warmings: vertical structure and coherence Joss Matthewman, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom; and A. J. Charlton, L. M. Polvani, and G. Esler |
| 9:45 AM | 5.6 | Dynamical impacts of Antarctic stratospheric ozone depletion on the extratropical circulation of the Southern Hemisphere Kevin M. Grise, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. W. J. Thompson |
| 10:00 AM | | Break
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| 10:30 AM | 5.7 | QBO and Annual Cycle Variations in Tropical Lower Stratosphere Trace Gases from HALOE and Aura MLS Observations (Invited Speaker) Mark Schoeberl, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass, P. A. Newman, L. Lait, D. Lary, N. J. Livesey, L. Froidevaux, A. Lambert, W. G. Read, M. J. Filipiak, and H. C. Pumphrey |
| 10:55 AM | 5.8 | A spring time case study of tropospheric ozone column enhancements over North America using a regional model and satellite data Qing Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and D. Cunnod, Y. Wang, and Y. Choi |
| 11:10 AM | 5.9 | Dynamics of the coupled system stratosphere/troposphere at strong polar vortex Nour-Eddine Omrani, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences & IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany; and M. Latif and M. A. Giorgetta |
| 11:25 AM | 5.10 | Middle and lower atmospheric effects of the total solar eclipse of 4 December 2002 simulated with a high-altitude global model Stephen Eckermann, NRL, Washington, DC; and D. Broutman, M. T. Stollberg, J. Ma, J. P. McCormack, and T. F. Hogan |
| 11:40 AM | 5.11 | A seasonal and quasibiennial climatology of Rossby wave breaking in the 320-2000 K layer Matthew H. Hitchman, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI; and A. S. Huesmann |
| 11:55 AM | 5.12 | Impacts of tropical cyclones on the upper troposphere Eric A. Ray, NOAA/ESRL/CSD, Boulder, CO; and K. H. Rosenlof |