Session 16 Tropical Circulations

Friday, 29 June 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Ballroom South (La Fonda on the Plaza)
Host: 16th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair:
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA

Papers:
8:30 AM
16.1
Diffusion of water vapor and the mechanical efficiency of moist circulations
Olivier Pauluis, New York Univ., New York, NY
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
16.2
Studies of the Hadley Circulation with an Idealized Moist GCM
Dargan M. W. Frierson, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (480.2 kB)

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