* - Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting

Program Chairpersons:
Michael C. Morgan, University of Wisconsin
Francois W. Primeau, University of California
Amy B. Solomon, NOAA/CIRES/CDC

Compact View of Conference

Sunday, 24 June 2007
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Stiha Registration Opens
Monday, 25 June 2007
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday, Stiha Registration Continues through Friday, 29 June
	8:45 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom South Session 1 PV and Vorticity Dynamics
Chair: Geoffrey K. Vallis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
8:45 AM 1.1A A new view of tropospheric Rossby wave breaking variability and effects   Courtenay Strong, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir   1.1 The effects of dispersion on the propagation and amplitude variations of baroclinic Rossby waves   Rémi Tailleux, Walker Institute for Climate Research, RG6 6BB Reading, United Kingdom 9:00 AM 1.2 Internal tide generation at the continental shelf   Stephen D. Griffiths, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. H. J. Grimshaw 9:15 AM 1.3 Barotropic Modes of the South Indian Ocean   Wilbert Weijer, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 9:30 AM 1.4 A probabilistic theory for balance dynamics   Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 9:45 AM 1.5 Air-sea PV flux: observations and implications for the dynamics of the Atlantic overturning   Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; and U. Haussman and N. Howe 10:00 AM 1.6 Potential vorticity dynamics of a tropopause polar vortex   Steven M. Cavallo, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. J. Hakim
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Coffee Break
	10:45 AM-12:15 PM, Monday, Ballroom South Session 2 Stability of Flows
Chair: Bruce R. Sutherland, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada
10:45 AM 2.1 Evidence for Deep PV Mixing in the ACC   K. Shafer Smith, New York University, New York, NY; and J. Marshall 11:00 AM 2.2 Stochastic baroclinic instability   Francis J. Poulin, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; and G. Flierl   2.3 Relating Over-Reflection and Wave Geometry to the Counter Propagating Rossby Wave Perspective: Toward a Deeper Mechanistic Understanding of Shear Instability   Nili Harnik, Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel; and E. Heifetz 11:15 AM 2.3A Spontaneous inertia-gravity wave radiation from cloudy and baroclinic cyclones   David A. Schecter, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and M. T. Montgomery 11:30 AM 2.4 A calculation of Lyapunov exponents for atmospheric blocking   Athar Hussain, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. R. Lupo and S. Dostoglou 11:45 AM 2.5 Transient development of perturbations in a barotropic shear flow   Nikolaos Bakas, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and B. F. Farrell 12:00 PM 2.6 Instability and breakdown of a vertical vortex pair in a strongly stratified fluid   Michael L. Waite, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. K. Smolarkiewicz
	12:15 PM-1:45 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:45 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, Ballroom South Session 3 Special Session: Ocean Eddy/Mixed Layer Interactions 1
Chair: Gokhan Danabasoglu, NCAR, Boulder, CO
1:45 PM 3.1 Invited Paper: Eddy-mixed layer interactions: theory and parameterizations   Raffaele Ferrari, MIT, Cambridge, MA 2:00 PM 3.2 Restratification by Mixed Layer Eddies   Baylor Fox-Kemper, MIT, Cambridge, 02139; and R. Ferrari   3.3 Mesoscale Eddy Parameterizations Using a Residual Scheme   Rongrong Zhao, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis 2:15 PM 3.4 Eddy diffusion and the Upper Meridional Cell of the Southern Ocean   Kevin Speer, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. B. Sallee and R. Morrow 2:30 PM 3.5 Observational verification of the diapycnal mixing induced by tropical instability waves   Markus Jochum, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Cronin, W. S. Kessler, and D. Shea 2:45 PM 3.6 Upper Ocean Dye Studies Using a Scanning, Depth-Resolving Airborne LIDAR   Miles A. Sundermeyer, Univ. of Massachusetts, New Bedford, MA; and J. R. Ledwell and E. A. Terray
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, Ballroom South Session 4 Special Session: Ocean Eddy/Mixed Layer Interactions 2
Chair: Baylor Fox-Kemper, MIT, Cambridge, MA
3:30 PM 4.1 Effects of Vertical Variations of Thickness Diffusivity in an Ocean General Circulation Model   Gokhan Danabasoglu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Marshall 3:45 PM 4.2 Formation of intrathermocline eddies at ocean fronts by wind-driven destruction of potential vorticity   Leif N. Thomas, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA 4.3 Frontogenesis and Frontal Breakdown   Elinborg Olafsdottir, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and J. C. McWilliams 4:00 PM 4.4 An energy-constrained parametrization of eddy tracer flux   Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA 4:15 PM 4.5 Some aspects of submesoscale processes in the ocean   Amit Tandon, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA; and A. Mahadevan and L. N. Thomas   4.6 Biological implications of submesoscale eddy fluxes   Amala Mahadevan, Boston University, Boston, MA 4:30 PM 4.6A Observations of the transition layer   Shaun Johnston, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. Rudnick
	5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Monday, Ballroom North Poster Viewing with Cash Bar
	5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Monday, Ballroom North Poster Session 1 Ocean Dynamics
P1.1 Defining the transition layer based on ocean mooring observations   Danielle G. Tinkham, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA; and A. Tandon   P1.2 The LANS-alpha turbulence model in ocean modeling   Mark R. Petersen, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. W. Hecht, D. D. Holm, and B. A. Wingate   P1.3 Factors affecting cirumpolar transport   Louis-Philippe Nadeau, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and D. Straub   P1.4 Oceanic Internal Waves off Bay of Bengal   M. Rajasekhar, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India; and K. V. S. R. Prasad   P1.6 Seasonal variability and the dynamics of Kuroshio intrusion into the Luzon and Taiwan Straits   Yu-Heng Tseng, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan; and S. Jan, D. E. Dietrich, and Y. Yang   P1.7 Modeled Ocean Response to Hurricane Katrina   David E. Dietrich, AcuSea, Inc, Albuquerque, NM; and Y. H. Tseng and P. M. K. Yau   P1.8 Weather maintained thermohaline circulation   Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom   P1.9 Topographically intensified Rossby basin modes in a two layer numerical model   Giuseppe Colantuono, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and W. Weijer   P1.10 Instability and focusing of internal tides in the deep ocean   Oliver Buhler, New York Univ., New York, NY; and C. J. Muller   P1.11 Decaying 2d turbulence in basin and meridional channel settings   Blaise Gauvin St-Denis, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and D. Straub   P1.12 Isotherm Flattening between the Gulf Stream and New England Shelfslope   David E. Dietrich, AcuSea, Inc, Albuquerque, NM; and Y. H. Tseng, J. Richman, A. Mehra, and M. J. Bowman   P1.13 Characterization of Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget in the Atmospheric Surface Layer   Xiangyi Li, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA; and N. Zimmerman and M. Princevac P1.14 Thermodynamic efficiency of the oceans   Rémi Tailleux, Walker Institute for Climate Research, RG6 6BB Reading, United Kingdom   P1.15 Global modelling of ocean tides   Stephen D. Griffiths, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. R. Peltier   P1.16 Ubiquitous, patchy, energetic upper ocean structures persist for years   Robert Bruce Scott, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and B. K. Arbic, C. L. Holland, A. Sen, and B. Qiu   P1.17 Impact of (seasonal) initialization on the North Atlantic circulation using a hybrid co-ordinate model   Avichal Mehra, NCEP/NWS/NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and C. Narayanan   P1.18 A study of the interaction between wind-driven gyres and zonal jets   Balasubramanya Nadiga, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and D. Straub   P1.19 ENSO mechanisms in the new CCSM   Markus Jochum, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Neale and Y. Richter   P1.20 Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets   Stephanie Waterman, MIT-WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and S. Jayne   P1.21 Anisotropy of the kinetic energy cascade measured with altimeter data for the World Ocean   Robert Bruce Scott, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and B. Qiu
	6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Monday, La Terraza Icebreaker Reception
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
	8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Tuesday, Ballroom South Session 5 Scale Interactions and Turbulence
Chair: Oliver Buhler, New York Univ., New York, NY
8:30 AM 5.1 A New Theory for the Atmospheric Energy Spectrum   Ross Tulloch, New York University, New York, NY; and K. S. Smith 8:45 AM 5.2 A regularization approach to modeling subgrid scales of geostrophic turbulence   Balasubramanya Nadiga, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 9:00 AM 5.3 Turbulence and gravity waves in a dynamically unbalanced upper-level jet-frontal system   Steven E. Koch, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and C. Lu 9:15 AM 5.4 Parameterization of subgrid-scale non-linear transfers in quasi-geostrophic flows using direct numerical simulations   Meelis Juma Zidikheri, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; and J. Frederiksen 9:30 AM 5.5 Mesoscale Eddy - Internal Wave Coupling and Closure of the Thermocline Circulation   Kurt L. Polzin, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and B. K. Arbic and R. B. Scott 9:45 AM 5.6 On bottom drag, horizontal eddy viscosity, and energy dissipation in models and observations of oceanic mesoscale eddies   Brian K. Arbic, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and K. L. Polzin and R. B. Scott   5.7 Upper ocean turbulence from high 3-D resolution simulations   Patrice Klein, IFREMER, PLOUZANE, France; and B. L. Hua, G. Lapeyre, X. Capet, S. Le Gentil, and H. Sasaki 10:00 AM 5.7A Scales of linear baroclinic instability and atmospheric macroturbulence   Timothy M. Merlis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Tuesday Coffee Break
	10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Ballroom South Session 6 Transport and Mixing
Chair: Thomas W. N. Haine, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
10:45 AM 6.1 Transport and mixing of chemical airmasses in idealized baroclinic life cycles   Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University, New York, NY; and G. Esler 11:00 AM 6.2 Effects of transport barriers on global mixing and fluxes   Noboru Nakamura, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL   6.3 A parameterization of shear-driven turbulence for ocean climate models   Laura C. Jackson, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and R. Hallberg and S. Legg 11:15 AM 6.3A Observations and modeling of water vapor isotopes from Mauna Kea, Hawaii   Joseph Galewsky, Univ.of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and M. Strong and Z. Sharp 11:30 AM 6.4 Laboratory Studies of Stirring by Small-Scale Geostrophic Motions   Grant A. Stuart, Univ. of Massachusetts, New Bedford, MA; and M. A. Sundermeyer and D. Hebert   6.5 Mixing by eddies in the Southern Ocean   Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; and J. Marshall and H. Hill 11:45 AM 6.5A Coriolis effects in inhomogeneous katabatic flows   Alan Shapiro, University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology, Norman, Oklahoma; and E. Fedorovich
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Tuesday, Ballroom South Session 7 Ocean Circulations
Chair: Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA
1:30 PM 7.1 Northern Hemisphere influence on stratification and transport of ACC   Geoffrey K. Vallis, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and N. Stjepan-Fuckar 1:45 PM 7.2 Can quadratic bottom drag balance most of the wind power input to the ocean general circulation?   Robert Bruce Scott, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Y. Xu and B. K. Arbic 2:00 PM 7.3 The vertical resistribution of momentum by the pressure-based EP flux and its energetics over the global ocean currents   Hidenori Aiki, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; and T. Yamagata 2:15 PM 7.4 Bifurcation Structure of a Wind-Driven Shallow Water Model with Layer-Outcropping   Francois Primeau, University of California, Irvine, CA; and D. Newman 2:30 PM 7.5 Interactions between near-inertial and geostrophic modes in the double gyre problem   David Straub, McGill, Montreal, QC, Canada; and A. Gertz
	2:45 PM-3:15 PM, Tuesday Coffee Break
	3:15 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Ballroom South Session 8 Jets and Wave-Mean Flow Interactions
Chair: Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
3:15 PM 8.1 Simulating the seasonal cycle of the Northern Hemisphere storm tracks using idealized nonlinear storm track models   Edmund K. M. Chang, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and P. Zurita-Gotor 3:30 PM 8.2 Barotropic and super-rotating jet formation in the evolution of very short mixed Rossby-gravity waves   Mark D. Fruman, IFREMER - Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer, 29280 Plouzané, France; and B. L. Hua and R. Schopp 3:45 PM 8.3 Evaluation of quasi-geostrophic turbulent closures in a two-layer model with barotropic structure   Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 4:00 PM 8.4 Generation of multiple jets and equatorial superrotation on Jupiter   Junjun Liu, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider 4:15 PM 8.5 Structure and spacing of jets in barotropic and baroclinic turbulence   Brian Farrell, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and P. J. Ioannou 4:30 PM 8.6 The turbulent equilibration of an unstable baroclinic jet   Gavin Esler, University College, London, United Kingdom 4:45 PM 8.7 The Effect of Topography on Storm Track Intensity in Relatively Simple General Circulation Model   Seok-woo Son, Columbia University, New York, NY; and M. Ting and L. M. Polvani
	5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Tuesday, Ballroom North Poster Viewing with Cash Bar
	5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Tuesday, Ballroom North Poster Session 2 Atmospheric Dynamics
P2.1 The efficacy of subsidence warming in the core of numerically simulated tornado-like vortices   Matt Kumjian, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Fiedler   P2.2 Extraction of coherent vortex features from Lagrangian data   Jonathan M. Lilly, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA; and S. C. Olhede and R. K. Scott P2.4 Perturbative renormalization group analysis in buoyancy effected stably stratified turbulence   Kishore Dutta, AES, India, India   P2.5 Suction Vortices, Spiral Breakdown and Multiple Vortices in Tornadoes   Brian Fiedler, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma   P2.6 Impacts of assimilation of satellite and rawinsonde observations on the energetics of Southern Hemisphere baroclinic waves in the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis   Yanjuan Guo, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and E. K. M. Chang   P2.7 A Resonant Instability of Steady Mountain Waves   David J. Muraki, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada; and Y. Lee and C. Epifanio   P2.8 Nonlinear Equilibration of Baroclinic Eddies and Its Sensitivity to Boundary Layer Dissipation   Yang Zhang, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. H. Stone and A. B. Solomon   P2.9 Wave-Activity Conservation Laws for the Three-Dimensional Anelastic and Boussinesq Equations with a Plane-Parallel Background Flow   Tiffany A. Shaw, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd   P2.10 Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in east-coast winter storms   Ian N. Williams, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and S. J. Colucci   P2.11 Eddy-zonal flow feedback in the Southern Hemisphere   Xiaosong Yang, COLA, Calverton, MD; and E. K. M. Chang   P2.13 An idealized nonlinear model of the Northern Hemisphere winter storm tracks: Formulation and applications   Edmund K. M. Chang, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and Y. Guo   P2.14 Time Scale and Feedback of Zonal Mean Flow Variability   Seok-woo Son, Columbia University, New York, NY; and S. Lee, S. B. Feldstein, and J. E. Ten Hoeve   P2.16 Effects of dispersion on zero and fast mode spectra in three-dimensional rotating stratified flows   Jai Sukhatme, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and L. M. Smith   P2.17 Intraseasonal Variability of the Zonal Mean Tropical Tropopause Height   Seok-woo Son, Columbia University, New York, NY; and S. Lee   P2.18 The Impact of Rapid Wind Variability upon Air-Sea Thermal Coupling   Philip Sura, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman   P2.19 Predictability of rotating stratified turbulence   Keith Ngan, McGill, Montreal, QC, Canada; and P. Bartello and D. Straub   P2.21 Reduced models for the atmospheric dynamics on the planetary and synoptic scales   Stamen Dolaptchiev, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), 14412 Potsdam, Germany; and R. Klein   P2.22 Time scale, power spectra, and bimodality of zonal mean flow variability   John E. Ten Hoeve, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. B. Feldstein, S. Lee, and S. W. Son   P2.23 Length scales in dry and moist baroclinic instability   Edwin P. Gerber, Columbia University, New York, NY; and D. M. W. Frierson and L. M. Polvani   P2.24 Finite-amplitude wave action diagnostics based on Bjerknes circulation   Abraham Solomon, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and N. Nakamura
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Ballroom South Session 9 General Circulation Theory
Chair: Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY
8:30 AM 9.1 Modeling of the atmosphere and ocean without the "traditional approximation"   Akira Kasahara, NCAR, Boulder, CO 8:45 AM 9.2 On the loss of energy from the ocean mesoscale flow via slaved inertia-gravity waves   Thomas W. N. Haine, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and P. D. Williams, G. Eyink, and D. Ring 9:00 AM 9.3 A climatology of the tropospheric thermal stratification using saturation potential vorticity   Robert Korty, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider 9:15 AM 9.4 The hydrological cycle over a wide range of climates in an idealized GCM   Paul A. O'Gorman, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider   9.5 The effect of the pole-to-pole surface temperature difference on the deep stratification and the meridional overturning circulation in an eddy-resolving model   Christopher L. Wolfe, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and P. Cessi 9:30 AM 9.5A A wind-evaporation mechanism for the abrupt seasonal transition of Hadley Circulations   William R. Boos, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and K. A. Emanuel 9:45 AM 9.6 Phase speed spectra and the latitude of the Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies: ENSO-induced variability and long-term trend   Gang Chen, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and I. M. Held
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom North Poster Session 3 General Circulation and Low-Frequency Variability
P3.1 The sensitivity of the isentropic slope in a primitive-equation dry model   Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain P3.2 Prediction of large-scale atmospheric flow using a mixture of empirical linear models   Frank Kwasniok, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom   P3.3 Atmospheric sensitivity to tropical heating as determined from the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem   Grant Branstator, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Gritsun and A. J. Majda P3.4 The structure of predictability in a quasigeostrophic atmospheric model   Frank Kwasniok, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom; and U. Feudel   P3.5 The global atmospheric circulation in moist isentropic coordinates   Olivier Pauluis, New York University, New York, NY; and A. Czaja and R. Korty   P3.6 The kinetic energy spectrum and general circulation of the atmosphere in a GCM without eddy-eddy interactions   Paul A. O'Gorman, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider   P3.7 The Spontaneous Formation of a Tropopause Inversion Layer in Simple, Dry, Atmospheric General Circulation Models   Seok-woo Son, Columbia University, New York, NY; and L. M. Polvani   P3.8 Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a relatively simple AGCM: The importance of stationary planetary waves   Edwin P. Gerber, Columbia University, New York, NY; and L. Polvani and D. W. Waugh   P3.9 Effects of Ozone on Stratospheric Wave-Mean Flow Interaction: Implications for Stratosphere-Troposphere Communication   John Albers, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and T. Nathan   P3.10 Local and hemispheric dynamics of the North Atlantic Oscillation, annular patterns and the Zonal Index   Edwin P. Gerber, Columbia University, New York, NY; and G. K. Vallis   P3.11 Instability of Long, Low Frequency Rossby Waves in Zonally Varying Shear Flow: Marginally Stable versus Deeply Stable Flow Regimes   Daniel Hodyss, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. Nathan   P3.12 Moisture Effects on Midlatitude Static Stability in a Hierarchy of Models   Dargan M. W. Frierson, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL   P3.13 The tropospheric jet response to prescribed zonal forcing in an idealized atmospheric model   Gang Chen, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and I. M. Held   P3.14 Does the poleward propagation of zonal-mean zonal wind anomalies depend upon the slope of the tropopause?   Cegeon J. Chan, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. A. Plumb   P3.15 A scaling theory for jets in beta-plane turbulence   Da Zhu, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and N. Nakamura   P3.17 Equatorial superrotation on giant planets driven by internal convection   Yohai Kaspi, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and G. R. Flierl
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom South Session 10 Low Frequency Variability and Annular Modes
Chair: Edmund K.M. Chang, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
1:30 PM 10.1 Teleconnections and the Arctic Oscillation observed in the barotropic component of the atmosphere   H. L. Tanaka, Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; and I. Suzuki 1:45 PM 10.2 On annular modes and zonal jets   Adam H. Monahan, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; and J. Fyfe 2:00 PM 10.3 Response of a simple ACGM's annular mode patterns to thermal forcings   Michael J. Ring, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. A. Plumb 10.4 Nonlinear stochastic low-order models of atmospheric low-frequency variability using an empirical regime-weighted closure scheme   Frank Kwasniok, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom 2:15 PM 10.5 Testing the annular mode autocorrelation timescale in simple Atmospheric General Circulation Models   Edwin P. Gerber, Columbia University, New York, NY; and S. Voronin and L. M. Polvani 2:30 PM 10.6 The Polar Annular Mode: Submonthly Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling in the Arctic   Brent A. McDaniel, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. X. Black
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom South Session 11 Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions
Chair: Lorenzo M. Polvani, Columbia University, New York, NY
3:30 PM 11.1 The circulation response to time-dependent tropospheric wave forcing in a simple general circulation model of the stratosphere   Richard K. Scott, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and L. Polvani 3:45 PM 11.2 Relationships between the North Atlantic Oscillation and isentropic water vapor transport into the lower stratosphere   Jonathon Wright, Columbia University, New York, NY; and S. W. Son, R. Fu, and M. Chen 4:00 PM 11.3 Tropical and Stratospheric influences on extratropical short-term climate variability   Matthew Newman, CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh 4:15 PM 11.4 Stratospheric influences on midtropospheric blocking anticyclones   Stephen J. Colucci, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 4:30 PM 11.5 Effects of Planetary Wave-Induced Ozone Heating on “Downward Control”: Implications for Climate Variability   Terry Nathan, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and E. Cordero 4:45 PM 11.6 On the Existence and Non-Existence of QBO-like Oscillations in Dynamical Cores of General Circulation Models   Christiane Jablonowski, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
	5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday Reception (Cash Bar)
	6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Wednesday, La Terraza Banquet with 2008 Haurwitz Lecturer David Rind presenting "The Consequences Of Not Knowing Low And High Latitude Climate Sensitivity"
Speaker: David H. Rind, NASA, New York, NY
Thursday, 28 June 2007
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Ballroom South Session 12 Predictability
Chair: Adam H. Monahan, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada
8:30 AM 12.1 Connection of unstable periodic orbits with statistical characteristics and predictability of barotropic atmospheric model   Andrey Gritsun, Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Moscow, Russia 8:45 AM 12.2 Large deviation theory applied to extreme waves   Oliver Buhler, New York Univ., New York, NY 9:00 AM 12.3 Information flow between subspaces in ensemble prediction for complex dynamical systems   Andrew J. Majda, New York University, New York, NY; and J. Harlim   12.4 On predictability of nonlinear models with large uncertainty in the evolution law   Leonid M. Ivanov, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 9:15 AM 12.4A Spatial growth of perturbations in turbulent baroclinic flows   Rahul B. Mahajan, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. J. Hakim 9:30 AM 12.5 Growth of differences in global simulations with explicit convection   Brian Mapes, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and T. Nasuno and M. Satoh 9:45 AM 12.6 The limit of predictability in the stratosphere versus troposphere of a coupled GCM   Cristiana Stan, COLA, Calverton, MD; and D. M. Straus
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Ballroom South Session 13 Equatorial and Gravity Waves
Chair: George N. Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
10:30 AM 13.1 Gravity-wave refraction by three-dimensionally varying winds and the global transport of angular momentum   Alexander E. Hasha, New York University, New York, NY; and O. Bühler 10:45 AM 13.2 Weakly nonlinear internal gravity wavepackets   B. R. Sutherland, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada 11:00 AM 13.3 Large amplitude internal gravity wavepacket propagation   Geoffrey L. Brown, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. R. Sutherland 11:15 AM 13.4 Do gravity waves transport angular momentum away from hurricanes?   Yumin Moon, RSMAS/University of Miami, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan 11:30 AM 13.5 Equatorial atmospheric waves observed by HIRDLS   M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Ortland and A. Grimsdell 11:45 AM 13.6 Equatorial atmospheric waves forced by latent heating   David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and M. J. Alexander and A. Grimsdell
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Thursday, Ballroom South Session 14 Tropical Dynamics
Chair: Olivier Pauluis, New York University, New York, NY
1:30 PM 14.1 New Multiscale Models and Self-Similarity in Tropical Convection   Andrew J. Majda, New York University, New York, NY 1:45 PM 14.2 Modeling the interaction between cumulus convection and linear waves in a limited domain cloud system resolving model   Zhiming Kuang, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2:00 PM 14.3 Organization of Mesoscale Convection within Equatorial Waves   George N. Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and S. N. Tulich and P. Haertel 2:15 PM 14.4 Using observations and simple models to quantify convective momentum transport in 2-day waves and the Madden Julian Oscillation   Patrick Haertel, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and Z. Feng and G. N. Kiladis 2:30 PM 14.5 Resonant response of deep convection to surface hot spots   Frank John Robinson, Geology and Geophysics Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and S. Sherwood and Y. Li
	2:45 PM-3:15 PM, Thursday Coffee Break
	3:15 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Ballroom South Session 15 Tropical Cyclones and Hurricanes
Chair: David S. Nolan, University of Miami, Miami, FL
3:15 PM 15.1 Low resolution rotating radiative-convective equilibria in large domains   Isaac M. Held, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and M. Zhao 3:30 PM 15.2 Experiments with Dry Hurricane Dynamics   Agnieszka Mrowiec, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and O. Pauluis and S. T. Garner 3:45 PM 15.3 Normalized gross moist stability in cyclogenesis   Sharon L. Sessions, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and D. J. Raymond 4:00 PM 15.4 Theory for the spinup of tropical depressions   David J. Raymond, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and S. L. Sessions and Z. Fuchs 15.5 Upper ocean warming and tropical cyclones   Claudia Pasquero, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and K. Emanuel 4:15 PM 15.6 On the distribution of subsidence in the hurricane eye   Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 4:30 PM 15.7 Sudden onset of eye occurrence in thermally forced axisymmetric vortices   Volkmar Wirth, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Germany; and T. J. Dunkerton
	5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Thursday, Ballroom North Poster Viewing with Cash Bar
	5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Thursday, Ballroom North Poster Session 4 Tropical Circulations and Dynamics
Characterization of the Double ITCZ Bias in Climate Models   Ken Takahashi, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ   P4.2 An MJO analog and intraseasonal variability in a multi-cloud model above the equator   Andrew Majda, New York Univ., New York, NY; and S. N. Stechmann and B. Khouider   P4.3 Simulating tornado infrasound   David A. Schecter, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and M. E. Nicholls, J. Persing, A. J. Bedard, and R. A. Pielke P4.4 Analysis of convectively coupled Kelvin waves in 15 WCRP CMIP3 models   Katherine H. Straub, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA; and P. Haertel and G. Kiladis   P4.5 Numerical Study of the Upper Ocean Response of the Western Caribbean Sea to Hurricane Mitch   Jinyu Sheng, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and L. Wang, B. Yang, S. Andrefouet, C. Hu, B. Hatcher, and F. Muller-Karger   P4.6 Controls on subtropical upper tropospheric humidity   Ju-Mee Ryoo, Baltimore, MD; and D. Waugh P4.7 Nonlinear Data Assimilation of Coherent Features   Jeffrey B. Weiss, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and B. E. Beechler, G. S. Duane, and J. Tribbia P4.9 Linear Simulations of Madden-Julian Oscillation Wind and Temperature Perturbations   Zhe Feng, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and P. Haertel and G. Kiladis P4.10 Theory and application of spontaneous imbalance to clear-air turbulence   John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. W. McCann and P. D. Williams   P4.11 Towards an improved data assimilation in the tropics   Nedjeljka Zagar, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Anderson and J. Tribbia   P4.12 Exergetics of deep moist convection   Peter R. Bannon, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA   P4.13 Use of a genesis potential index to diagnose ENSO effects on tropical cyclone genesis   Suzana J. Camargo, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Univ.; and A. H. Sobel and K. Emanuel   P4.16 The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Forcing in a Simplified GCM   Sarah M. Kang, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and I. M. Held and D. M. W. Frierson   P4.17 Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves in a Simplified Moist General Circulation Model   Dargan M. W. Frierson, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL   P4.18 Nonlinear structure and evolution of African easterly waves   Anantha R. Aiyyer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and N. R. Hardin   P4.19 The Effect of Moisture on the Hadley Circulation: Simulations with an Idealized GCM   Xavier Josselin Arnaud Levine, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider   P4.20 Cyclogenesis via Rossby wave radiation from extant tropical cyclones   Kyle D. Krouse, Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. H. Sobel and L. M. Polvani
Friday, 29 June 2007
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Friday, Ballroom South Session 16 Tropical Circulations
Chair: Tapio Schneider, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
8:30 AM 16.1 Diffusion of water vapor and the mechanical efficiency of moist circulations   Olivier Pauluis, New York University, New York, NY 8:45 AM 16.2 Studies of the Hadley Circulation with an Idealized Moist GCM   Dargan M. W. Frierson, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 9:00 AM 16.3 Tuning an idealized ITCZ model to observations   Adam H. Sobel, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and G. Bellon, L. E. Back, and C. Bretherton 9:15 AM 16.4 Equatorial asymmetric simulations of the ITCZ and shallow meridional circulation   David S. Nolan, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang and S. W. Powell 9:30 AM 16.5 Coupling between large-scale eddies, the width and vertical structure of ITCZs   Matthew Peters, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and Z. Kuang and C. Walker 9:45 AM 16.6 Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming   J. Lu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Vecchi and T. Reichler
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Friday, Ballroom South Session 17 Monsoons and Easterly Waves
Chair: Claudia Pasquero, Univ.of California, Irvine, CA
10:30 AM 17.1 Monsoons transitions as regime transitions of a Hadley cell: I. Dry dynamics   Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. Bordoni 10:45 AM 17.2 Monsoons transitions as regime transitions of a Hadley cell: II. Moist dynamics in an aquaplanet GCM   Simona Bordoni, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider 11:00 AM 17.3 Interaction of the West African Monsoon Circulation and Eastern Tropical Atlantic SSTs   Samson M. Hagos, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and K. H. Cook 11:15 AM 17.4 Instability of the axisymmetric monsoon flow and intraseasonal oscillation   Gilles Bellon, Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. H. Sobel 11:30 AM 17.5 The Origins of ITCZ, Monsoon, and Monsoon Onset   Winston C. Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 11:45 AM 17.6 Role of African Easterly Waves and embedded vorticity features in genesis of tropical cyclones over the Eastern Tropical Atlantic   Susanna Hopsch, Univ. at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Friday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Friday, Ballroom South Session 18 Dynamics of the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System
Chair: Matthew Newman, CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 18.1 Meridional energy transport in the coupled atmosphere-ocean System   Geoffrey K. Vallis, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and R. Farneti 1:45 PM 18.2 Decadal to centennial climate variability in a model of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system   Riccardo Farneti, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis 2:00 PM 18.3 A Global View of Non-Gaussian SST Variability   Philip Sura, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh 2:15 PM 18.4 The Relative Importance of Tropical Variability Forced from the North Pacific through Ocean Pathways   Amy B. Solomon, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin, M. Alexander, and J. P. McCreary   18.5 The Role of ENSO in Regulting its Background State   De-Zheng Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 2:30 PM 18.6 The impact of MJO on the onset of the 1997/98 El Niño in a coupled model system   Li Shi, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and O. Alves, H. H. Hendon, and G. Wang 2:45 PM 18.7 Atmospheric and Ocean Thermodynamics in Quaternary Climate Change   Chung-Chieng A. Lai, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and Y. H. Tseng and D. E. Dietrich

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