Session 1 PV and Vorticity Dynamics

Monday, 25 June 2007: 8:45 AM-10:15 AM
Ballroom South (La Fonda on the Plaza)
Host: 16th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair:
Geoffrey K. Vallis, Princeton Univ., GFDL, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Papers:
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
9:15 AM
1.2
Internal tide generation at the continental shelf
Stephen D. Griffiths, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. H. J. Grimshaw

9:30 AM
1.3
Barotropic Modes of the South Indian Ocean
Wilbert Weijer, LANL, Los Alamos, NM

9:45 AM
1.4
A probabilistic theory for balance dynamics
Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

10:00 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

10:15 AM
1.6
Potential vorticity dynamics of a tropopause polar vortex
Steven M. Cavallo, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. J. Hakim

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