Session 9 General Circulation Theory

Wednesday, 27 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:
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY

Papers:
8:30 AM
9.1
Modeling of the atmosphere and ocean without the "traditional approximation"
Akira Kasahara, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
9.4
The hydrological cycle over a wide range of climates in an idealized GCM
Paul A. O'Gorman, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and T. Schneider
Recorded Presentation

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

9:45 AM
9.5A
A wind-evaporation mechanism for the abrupt seasonal transition of Hadley Circulations
William R. Boos, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and K. A. Emanuel
Recorded Presentation

10:00 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
Recorded Presentation

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