Session 9 |
| General Circulation Theory |
| Chair: Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY
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| 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 |