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Monday, 8 June 2009
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Monday, Pinnacle BC Session 1 Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Observations
Chair: George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
8:00 AM 1.1 Quantifying baroclinic adjustment in the atmosphere from data   Noboru Nakamura, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 8:20 AM 1.2 Two Types of Baroclinic Life Cycles during the Southern Hemisphere Summer   Steven B. Feldstein, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and W. Moon 8:40 AM 1.3 Tropopause-level Wave-guides   Olivia Martius, ETH, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Schwierz and H. C. Davies 9:00 AM 1.4 On non-Gaussian sea surface height variability   Philip Sura, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 9:20 AM 1.5 Observed tropical diabatic heating profiles and their projections on the vertical modes   C. Zhang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. M. Hagos 9:40 AM 1.6 Simulations of layering and stratified turbulence surrounding an anticyclonic eddy   Bach Lien Hua, IFREMER, Plouzane, France; and C. Menesguen, S. Le Gentil, and H. Aiki
	10:00 AM-10:20 AM, Monday, Stowe Room Coffee Break
	10:20 AM-12:20 PM, Monday, Pinnacle BC Session 2 Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Theory I
Chair: Steven B. Feldstein, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
10:20 AM 2.1 Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of climate variability   Jeffrey B. Weiss, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 10:40 AM 2.2 Effective stratification for the dry and moist isentropic circulations   Olivier Pauluis, New York University, New York, NY; and F. Laliberte 11:00 AM 2.3 Kelvin waves in the nonlinear shallow water equations on the sphere: Nonlinear traveling waves and the corner wave bifurcation   John P. Boyd, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Zhou 11:20 AM 2.4 A field theoretical model of stationary atmospheric vortices   Florin Spineanu, National Institute of Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Bucharest, Romania; and M. O. Vlad 11:40 AM 2.5 Effects of large-scale energy dissipation in geostrophic turbulence   Richard K. Scott, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland; and L. M. Polvani and T. J. Dunkerton 12:00 PM 2.6 Application of spontaneous imbalance theory to the problem of clear-air turbulence forecasting   John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. W. McCann and P. D. Williams
	12:20 PM-1:50 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:50 PM-3:30 PM, Monday, Pinnacle BC Session 3 Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Theory II
Chair: Olivier Pauluis, New York University, New York, NY
1:50 PM 3.1 The general circulation of planetary atmospheres as turbulent equilibria   Brian Farrell, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and P. J. Ioannou 2:10 PM 3.2 A baroclinic turbulence closure   Petros J. Ioannou, Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece; and B. Farrell 2:30 PM 3.3 Finite Amplitude Equilibration of Baroclinic Waves on a Jet   Sukyoung Lee, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 2:50 PM 3.4 Equilibrium states of eddy-driven jets in a generalized potential vorticity staircase model   Da Zhu, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and N. Nakamura 3:10 PM 3.5 Equilibration of baroclinic eddies in a primitive equation model   Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and G. K. Vallis
	3:30 PM-3:50 PM, Monday, Stowe Room Coffee Break
	3:50 PM-4:30 PM, Monday, Pinnacle BC Session 4 Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Theory III
Chair: David S. Nolan, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
3:50 PM 4.1 Orographic Precipitation in the tropics: linear theory of triggered convection   Ronald B. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and D. J. Kirshbaum   Paper 4.2 moved. New Paper number 9.2A   4:10 PM 4.2 Intermediate and High Resolution Numerical Simulations of the Transition of a Tropical Wave Critical Layer to a Tropical Depression   Michael T. Montgomery, NPS, Monterey, CA; and Z. Wang and T. J. Dunkerton
	4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Monday, Stowe Room Joint Poster Session 1 Theory (Joint between the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere)
Chair: Steven B. Feldstein, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
JP1.1 Persistent multiple jets and the PV staircase   Changhyun Yoo, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and S. Lee JP1.2 Subgrid-scale parametrization using cluster-weighted modeling   Frank Kwasniok, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom   JP1.3 Nonlinear stratified spindown over a sloping bottom   Jessica A. Benthuysen, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and L. N. Thomas   JP1.4 Single-layer axisymmetric model for a Hadley circulation with parameterized eddy momentum forcing   Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY; and T. Schneider   JP1.5 Dynamics of the tropopause   Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and G. K. Vallis   JP1.6 Equatorial Mountain Torques and Large-Scale Mountain Flow Dynamics   Francois Lott, CNRS, Paris, France; and S. Mailler   JP1.7 A filtered model of tropical wave motions   Levi G. Silvers, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. H. Schubert, M. T. Masarik, and A. O. Gonzalez   JP1.8 Parameterization of baroclinic eddies in a channel model   Gavin Esler, University College London, London, United Kingdom   JP1.9 The rotating Green-Naghdi shallow water model: a simple framework for the investigation of mesoscale atmospheric and oceanic flows   Joseph Daniel Pearce, University College, London, London, United Kingdom; and J. G. Esler   JP1.10 The role of non-quasigeostrophic forcing in the Southern Hemisphere blocking onsets   Li Dong, WindLogics Inc., Grand Rapids, MN; and S. J. Colucci   JP1.11 Barotropic Instability in the Caribbean and the Tropical East Pacific   Saska Gjorgjievska, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and D. Raymond   JP1.12 A theoretical framework for energy and momentum consistency in subgrid-scale parameterization for climate models   Tiffany A. Shaw, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd   JP1.13 Balances on the planetary scale in the atmosphere   Stamen Dolaptchiev, Institut fuer Atmosphaere und Umwelt , Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany   JP1.14 Baroclinic eddy equilibration under specified seasonal forcing   Yang Zhang, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. H. Stone   JP1.15 Moist convection and the thermal stratification of the extratropical troposphere   Tapio Schneider, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and P. A. O'Gorman   JP1.16 moved, new paper number J3.6     JP1.17 Response of the Hadley Circulation to Climate Change in an Aquaplanet GCM Coupled to Ocean Heat Transport   Xavier J. Levine, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider   JP1.18 Moist baroclinic eddies as features of the dry and moist isentropic circulations in a warming climate   Frederic Laliberte, New York University, New York City, NY; and O. Pauluis   JP1.19 Generation mechanisms and scales of eddies on Jupiter   Junjun Liu, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider   JP1.20 Understanding Tornadoes and Microbursts   Essam A. Farag, SNC-Lavalin Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada
	4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Monday, Stowe Room Joint Poster Session 2 Observations (Joint between the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere)
Organizer: George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
JP2.1 The Dynamics of the Pacific-North American Teleconnection Pattern   Christian Franzke, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and S. B. Feldstein and S. Lee   JP2.2 Dynamical feedbacks and the persistence of the NAO   Elizabeth A. Barnes, Seattle, WA; and D. L. Hartmann   JP2.3 The link between Rossby Wave Breaking and Cut off Low Pressure Systems in the Southern Hemisphere Upper Troposphere   Thando Ndarana, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; and D. Waugh   JP2.4 The dynamics of transverse cirrus bands: inferences from observations   John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and A. S. Bachmeier, K. M. Bedka, M. Carter, J. E. Tarantino, L. C. Paulik, E. N. Wilson, G. S. Bechdol, and M. J. Mays   JP2.5 moved. New paper number 7.2A     JP2.5A The role of tropical waves in the dynamics of the mesosphere   David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and R. S. Lieberman, D. Riggin, and M. J. Alexander   JP2.6 Engineering an Effective and Economic Measurement of Atmospheric Stability   Richie Cotton, Renewable Energy Systems, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Pinnacle BC Joint Session 1 Coupled Troposphere-Stratosphere: Dynamics (Joint between the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere and the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics)
Organizers: Judith Perlwitz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO Chair: Peter Haynes, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom
8:00 AM J1.1 Characteristics of baroclinic wave packets over the North Atlantic during strong and weak polar vortex events   Ian N. Williams, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and S. J. Colucci 8:20 AM J1.2 Troposphere-stratosphere communication through local vertical waveguides   Terry Nathan, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and D. Hodyss 8:40 AM J1.3 Stratospheric influences on tropospheric weather systems   Stephen J. Colucci, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 9:00 AM J1.4 Stratospheric influence on tropospheric circulation through altered tropospheric eddy phase speeds   Isaac M. Held, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and G. Chen 9:20 AM J1.5 The role of eddies in driving the tropospheric response to stratospheric heating perturbations   Isla R. Simpson, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackburn, J. D. Haigh, and S. Sparrow 9:40 AM J1.6 Stratosphere-Troposphere Dynamical Coupling and Tropospheric Predictability   Clara Orbe, Columbia University, New York, NY; and E. P. Gerber and L. M. Polvani
	10:00 AM-10:20 AM, Tuesday, Stowe Room Coffee Break
	10:20 AM-12:20 PM, Tuesday, Pinnacle BC Joint Session 2 Coupled Troposphere-Stratosphere: Dynamics and Annular Modes (Joint between the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere and the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics)
Organizers: Judith Perlwitz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO Chair: Matthew H. Hitchman, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI
10:20 AM J2.1 Advantages of a conservative coordinate system   Abraham Solomon, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and N. Nakamura 10:40 AM J2.2 Relationship among SSW, VI, PJO and AO in an idealized stratosphere-troposphere coupled model   Shigeo Yoden, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan; and M. Kohma and S. Nishizawa 11:00 AM J2.3 A simplified annular mode index based on zonal-mean data   Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and D. W. J. Thompson 11:20 AM J2.4 Annular mode time scales and climate sensitivity in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report models   Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York, NY; and L. M. Polvani and D. Ancukiewicz 11:40 AM J2.5 Use of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem to predict tropospheric climate response   Fenwick C. Cooper, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and P. H. Haynes 12:00 PM J2.6 On the sensitivities of the stratosphere / troposphere coupling to changes in the lower stratospheric winds   Cegeon J. Chan, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. A. Plumb
	12:20 PM-1:50 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break
	1:50 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Pinnacle BC Joint Session 3 Coupled Troposphere-Stratosphere: Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere (Joint between the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere and the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics)
Organizers: Judith Perlwitz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO Chair: Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York, NY
1:50 PM J3.1 Tropical cyclones and the Quasi-biennial Oscillation   Suzana J. Camargo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and A. H. Sobel 2:10 PM J3.2 Effect of Tropical Waves on the Tropical Tropopause-Transition-Layer Upwelling   Jung-Hee Ryu, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and S. Lee 2:30 PM J3.3 Trends and variability in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere 1990-2008: Insights from stratospheric water vapour   Peter H. Haynes, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and S. Fueglistaler, Y. Liu, W. G. Read, G. Stiller, and A. J. Simmons   JP3.4 Withdrawn   2:50 PM J3.5 Influence of stratospheric sudden warming and vortex intensification on the tropical troposphere   Yuhji Kuroda, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 3:10 PM J3.6 The location and downstream intensification of storm tracks in an idealized moist GCM   Yohai Kaspi, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider
	3:30 PM-3:50 PM, Tuesday, Stowe Room Coffee Break
	3:50 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday, Pinnacle BC Joint Session 4 Internal Gravity Waves (Joint between the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere and the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics)
Organizer: M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO Chair: M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO
3:50 PM J4.1 Parameterization of internal wave breaking due to near-inertial shear   Julie C. Vanderhoff, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 4:10 PM J4.2 Generation of Inertia-Gravity Waves from Jets within vortex dipoles   Shuguang Wang, Columbia University, New York, NY; and F. Zhang
	4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Stowe Room Joint Poster Session 3 Coupled Troposphere-Stratosphere (Joint between the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere and the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics)
Organizers: Judith Perlwitz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
JP3.1 Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Tropopause in Radiosonde Data   Seok-woo Son, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and L. M. Polvani and J. Eckstein   J3.4 Effect of stratospheric circulation on the extratropical tropopause inversion layer in a simple GCM   Seok-woo Son, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and E. P. Gerber and L. M. Polvani   JP3.2 Influence of stationary wave field on stratosphere-troposphere coupling response to Siberian surface cooling   Karen L. Smith, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. J. Kushner   JP3.3 Modeling the coupled stratosphere-troposphere stationary wave response to climate change   Lei Wang, University of Toronto, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. J. Kushner   JP3.4 Intra-annual relationships between polar ozone and the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode   Ryan L. Fogt, Ohio University, Athens, OH; and J. Perlwitz, S. Pawson, and M. A. Olsen   JP3.5 Investigating the predictability of Stratospheric Sudden Warmings in the Northern Hemisphere   Sana Mahmood, UK Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom   JP3.6 The downward influence of stratospheric final warming events in an idealized model   Lantao Sun, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and W. A. Robinson
	4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Stowe Room Joint Poster Session 4 Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere and Middle Atmosphere (Joint between the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere and the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics)
Organizer: Judith Perlwitz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
JP4.1 Mechanisms for Enhanced Gravity Wave Activity during Stratospheric Sudden Warmings   Ling Wang, NorthWest Research Associates Inc., Boulder, CO; and M. J. Alexander   JP4.2 Observed solar-cycle responses and trends in mesospheric water vapor   Ellis Remsberg, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA   JP4.3 The lifetime and longitudinal variation of the Kelvin waves around the tropopause and the upper troposphere in the tropic   Junko Suzuki, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan; and M. Shiotani, N. Nishi, R. Shirooka, and M. Yoshizaki   JP4.4 Analysis of Ultra-fast Kelvin Waves Simulated by Kyushu University GCM   Ying-Wen Chen, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; and S. Miyahara   JP4.5 Diurnal wind variations observed by an MF radar at Syowa Antarctic Station   Yoshihiro Tomikawa, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Tsutsumi   JP4.6 Current status of superconducting submillimeter-wave limb-emission sounder (SMILES)   Masato Shiotani, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan; and M. Takayanagi   JP4.7 Higher order approximation of ray theory applied to orographic gravity waves   Manuel Pulido, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina; and C. Rodas   JP4.8 Studies of stratopause structure, evolution and transport from satellite data and new assimilation products   G.L. Manney, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and K. Krueger, M. J. Schwartz, S. Pawson, N. McKee, M. Sienkiewicz, W. Daffer, K. W. Hoppel, N. Livesey, S. Polavarapu, M. G. Mlynczak, E. Remsberg, and J. M. Russell   JP4.9 Tropical upper-tropospheric ozone variability as observed by the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder   Nathaniel J. Livesey, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and L. Froidevaux, M. Santee, D. Wu, J. Jiang, H. Su, W. Read, A. Lambert, and R. Doherty   JP4.10 Estimating gravity wave parameters with a genetic algorithm for realistic gravity wave drag profiles   Manuel Pulido, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. Polavarapu, T. G. Shepherd, and J. Thuburn   JP4.11 Solar proton events and their effects on the middle atmosphere as observed by Aura-MLS and ACE-FTS   David Herceg, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and G. L. Manney, K. Minschwaner, and M. L. Santee   JP4.12 Multiscale tropical convection: understanding the relationship between convective momentum transport and gravity wave momentum flux   Todd P. Lane, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and M. W. Moncrieff   JP4.13 Hydroxyl in the middle atmosphere: relationship to ozone, water vapor, and solar radiation changes   K. Minschwaner, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
	4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Stowe Room Joint Poster Session 5 Interactions between Tropical Convection and the Large Scale Circulation (Joint between the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere)
Organizer: George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
JP5.1 Diabatic heating, divergent circulation and moisture transport in the African Monsoon System   Samson M. Hagos, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang   JP5.2 Relative role of convection and large-scale flow in controlling upper tropospheric humidity   Ju-Mee Ryoo, Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh and T. Igusa   JP5.3 The continuum of North Pacific sea level pressure patterns: Intraseasonal, interannual, and interdecadal variability   Nat Johnson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. B. Feldstein   JP 5.4 has been moved. New paper number 6.2A     JP5.5 Idealized Walker circulations over a wide range of climates   Timothy M. Merlis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider   JP5.6 Forcing of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves by Extratropical Wave Activity   George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
	4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Stowe Room Poster Session 1 Mesoscale and Submesoscale Ocean Features
Organizer: Thomas W. N. Haine, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
P1.1 The turbulent equilibration of baroclinic jets: asymmetric jets and barotropic governor   Ben Willcocks, University College London, London, United Kingdom; and G. Esler   P1.2 Submesoscale coherent structures and SST gradient in ocean model simulations   Huei-Ping Huang, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and E. Curchitser, A. Kaplan, and C. A. Edwards P1.3 Observations of the energy cascades in the oceanic mesoscale   Robert Bruce Scott, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX   P1.4 Impact of high-resolution, high-frequency meteorological forcing on Denmark-Strait ocean circulation   Thomas W. N. Haine, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and S. Zhang, G. W. K. Moore, and I. A. Renfrew
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Pinnacle BC Session 5 Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Modeling I
Chair: Adam H. Sobel, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, and Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia Univ.
8:00 AM 5.1 Optimal width of hot spots for driving deep moist convective systems   Steven Sherwood, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and D. Gerstle and F. J. Robinson 8:20 AM 5.2 Does deep convection contain undiluted parcels?   David M. Romps, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and Z. Kuang 8:40 AM 5.3 Radiatively generated vortical flows   Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 9:00 AM 5.4 Why is the Atlantic storm track stronger than its Pacific counterpart?   Edmund K. M. Chang, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and W. Lin 9:20 AM 5.5 Covariability of SST and surface heat fluxes in reanalyses and CMIP3 climate models   Bin Yu, AES, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. Merryfield, G. Boer, and F. W. Zwiers 9:40 AM 5.6 New algorithms for low frequency climate response   Rafail V. Abramov, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; and A. J. Majda
	10:00 AM-10:20 AM, Wednesday, Stowe Room Coffee Break
	10:20 AM-12:20 PM, Wednesday, Pinnacle BC Session 6 Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Modeling II
Chair: Edmund K. M. Chang, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
10:20 AM 6.1 Meridional energy transport in the atmosphere-ocean system: theory and simulation   Geoffrey K. Vallis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and R. Farneti 6.2 Zonal versus meridional velocity variance in the World Ocean: order in the chaotic ocean   Robert Bruce Scott, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and B. K. Arbic 10:40 AM 6.2A Dynamic and thermodynamic constraints on the response of tropical circulations to climate changes   Tapio Schneider, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and X. J. Levine 11:00 AM 6.3 Varied changes in the intensity of extratropical transient eddies in response to global warming   Paul A. O'Gorman, MIT, Cambridge, MA 11:20 AM 6.4 The response of the hydrological cycle to climate change   Caroline Jane Muller, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. A. O'Gorman and L. E. Back 11:40 AM 6.5 Midlatitude moisture transport in simulations of paleoclimates   Robert Korty, Texas A&M, College Station, TX 12:00 PM 6.6 Formation mechanisms of jets and superrotation on giant planets   Junjun Liu, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider
	12:20 PM-1:50 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:50 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, Pinnacle BC Session 7 Mesoscale and Sub-Mesoscale Oceanic Features I
Organizer: Thomas W. N. Haine, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
1:50 PM 7.1 The structure of geostrophic stirring in the oceanic submesoscale   K. Shafer Smith, New York University, New York, NY; and R. Ferrari 2:10 PM 7.2 Horizontal particle dispersion by random internal waves   Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, New York University, New York, NY; and O. Buhler 2:30 PM 7.3 Critical-layer isopycnal mixing and PV homogenization in the Southern Ocean   Ryan P. Abernathey, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and J. Marshall 2:50 PM 7.4 Mixing across unsteady jets   Andrew F. Thompson, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 3:10 PM 7.5 Eddy-mean flow interactions in western boundary current jets: theory and observations   Stephanie N. Waterman, MIT-WHOI Joint Program (now National Oceanography Centre, Southampton - Grantham Institute, Imperial College), Woods Hole, MA; and S. R. Jayne and N. G. Hogg
	3:30 PM-3:50 PM, Wednesday, Stowe Room Coffee Break
	3:50 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday, Pinnacle BC Session 8 Mesoscale and Submesoscale Ocean Features II
Organizer: Thomas W. N. Haine, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
3:50 PM 8.1 Large-scale ocean circulation in the eddying regime: the effects of diffusivity, forcing, and geometry   Christopher L. Wolfe, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and P. Cessi 4:10 PM 8.2 Using Microwave Range Sensors for Long Term Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface Dynamics   Robert Heitsenrether, NOAA/CO-OPS, Chesapeake, VA
	4:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Pinnacle BC Joint Session 5 Haurwitz Lecture (Joint between the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere)
4:30 PM Large-scale atmospheric waves observed by TIMED/SABER   Rolando R. Garcia, NCAR, Boulder, CO
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday, Atrium Lawn 17Fluid and 15Middle Joint Reception with Cash Bar
Thursday, 11 June 2009
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Pinnacle BC Session 9 Vortex Dynamics I
Chair: Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
8:00 AM 9.1 Tropical cyclogenesis in a tropical wave critical layer: Easterly waves   Timothy J. Dunkerton, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and M. T. Montgomery and Z. Wang   Paper 9.2 moved. New paper number 4.2A   8:20 AM 9.2A Instabilities and oscillations accompanying boundary layer flow over a stratified cold pool: Numerical simulations of dynamics in the Arizona Meteor Crater   David C. Fritts, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Colorado Research Associates Division, Boulder, CO; and D. Goldstein and T. Lund 8:40 AM 9.3 Hurricanes and Filaments in Diabatic Ekman Turbulence   David A. Schecter, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton 9:00 AM 9.4 Exponentially Unstable Edge Modes at Large Froude Number: the Inertial-Gravity-Edge Instability   Christopher A. Jeffery, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 9:20 AM 9.5 Tropical cyclone resiliency in vertical shear flow   Paul D. Reasor, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL 9:40 AM 9.6 Evaluating the vertical structure of tangential winds in tropical cyclone simulations: comparison to observations and theory   Daniel P. Stern, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan
	10:00 AM-10:20 AM, Thursday, Stowe Room Coffee Break
	10:20 AM-12:20 PM, Thursday, Pinnacle BC Session 10 Vortex Dynamics II
Organizer: Paul D. Reasor, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
10:20 AM 10.1 Eddy-driven buoyancy gradients on eastern boundaries   Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and C. L. Wolfe 10:40 AM 10.2 Resolution dependence of the tropopause inversion layer in an idealized modelling framework   Volkmar Wirth, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Mainz, Germany; and A. Mueller 11:00 AM 10.3 Potential vorticity dynamics of submesoscale flows in the ocean   Leif N. Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 11:20 AM 10.4 Vortex intensification of tropopause polar cyclones   Steven M. Cavallo, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. J. Hakim 11:40 AM 10.5 A study of ocean spray effect on tropical cyclones dynamics   Yevgenii Rastigejev, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin 12:00 PM 10.6 Evolution of Multi-scale Vortex in the development of Hurricane Dolly (2008)   Juan Fang, Nanjing University, China, Nanjing, China; and F. Zhang
	12:20 PM-1:50 PM, Thursday Lunch Break
	1:50 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Pinnacle BC Session 11 Mixing within the Ocean and Atmosphere
Chair: Paola Cessi, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA
1:50 PM 11.1 Lagrangian Coherent Structures and Turbulence Detection near the Hong Kong International Airport based on LIDAR Measurements   Wenbo Tang, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and G. Haller and P. W. Chan 2:10 PM 11.2 Quantifying robustness of mixing diagnostics inferred from satellite altimetry   Shane R. Keating, Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY; and K. S. Smith 2:30 PM 11.3 New measures of mixing by eddies in the atmosphere and ocean   Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom 2:50 PM 11.4 Geostrophic Eddy Mixing in the Southern Ocean   Raffaele Ferrari, MIT, Cambridge, MA 3:10 PM 11.5 Convective and wind-driven turbulence at mixed layer fronts   John R. Taylor, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. Ferrari
	3:30 PM-3:50 PM, Thursday, Stowe Room Coffee Break
	3:50 PM-4:30 PM, Thursday, Pinnacle BC Session 12 Interactions Between Tropical Convection and the Large Scale Circulation I
Chair: Stefan N. Tulich, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
3:50 PM 12.1 Idealized studies of the ITCZ and its multi-Level circulations   David S. Nolan, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and S. W. Powell and C. Zhang 4:10 PM 12.2 Convectively Coupled Waves Propagating along an Equatorial ITCZ   Juliana Dias, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, NYU, New York, NY; and O. Pauluis
	4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday, Stowe Room Joint Poster Session 6 Modeling (Joint between the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere)
Chair: Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY
JP6.1 Basin and channel contributions to a model antarctic circumpolar current   Louis-Philippe Nadeau, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and D. Straub   JP6.2 Precipitation and its extremes under climate change   Paul A. O'Gorman, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and T. Schneider JP6.3 Prediction of large-scale atmospheric flow using a mixture of empirical linear models   Frank Kwasniok, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom   JP6.4 Zonal jets and the wind-driven midlatitude ocean circulation   Balasubramanya Nadiga, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and D. Straub   JP6.5 Climate change in an idealized coupled general circulation model   Timothy M. Merlis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider   JP6.6 Understanding GCM predicted storm track changes under global warming   Xiaoming Xia, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and E. Chang   JP6.7 The role of boundary layer processes in baroclinic eddy equilibration in a simple atmosphere-slab ocean coupled model   Yang Zhang, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. H. Stone   JP6.8 Sensitivity to the vertical and meridional structure of the meridional temperature gradient in a three-layer quasigeostrophic turbulence model   Erica M. Staehling, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and I. M. Held and G. K. Vallis   JP6.9 Understanding Ocean Heat Uptake Using Simple Models and GCMs   Peng Xie, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis   JP6.10 Uncertainty in numerical modeling of deep moist convective processes: the role of microphysics   Antonio Parodi, CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy; and E. Fiori, L. Molini, and F. Siccardi   JP6.11 The climate and seasonal cycle on Titan: atmospheric dynamics and methane cycle   Sonja D.B. Graves, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider and E. L. Schaller   JP6.12 The Tropopause Inversion Layer in baroclinic Life-cycle Experiments   Andre Richard Erler, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and V. Wirth   JP6.13 The role of the Altai-Sayan Mountains on the midwinter suppression of North Pacific storminess in a comprehensive climate model   Hyo Seok Park, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA   JP6.14 Multiple equilibria in an axisymmetric model of the tropical circulation with prognostic BL moisture   Peng Xian, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. L. Miller   JP6.15 Role of Continental-scale Landmass in Monsoonal and Global Precipitation Distribution   Winston Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD   JP6.16 Secondary instabilities in the breaking of inertia gravity waves   Mark Furman, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and U. Achatz   JP6.17 Circulation sensitivity to heating in an idealized model   Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain   JP6.18 Role of sea ice feedbacks in climate changes simulated with an idealized GCM   Ian Eisenman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider
	4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday, Stowe Room Joint Poster Session 7 Vortex Dynamics (Joint between the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere)
Chair: Paul D. Reasor, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
JP7.1 The detection and significance of diurnal pressure and Potential Vorticity anomalies east of the Rockies   Yanping Li, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith   JP7.2 The Influence of the QBO on Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Tracks   Chang-Hoi Ho, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and H. S. Kim, J. H. Jeong, and S. W. Son   JP7.3 The dynamical response of the hurricane wind field to rainband heating   Yumin Moon, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan   JP7.4 On the relative roles of vortex merger, axisymmetrization, diabatic heating, and mid-level moistening in tropical cyclogenesis   David S. Nolan, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and M. Iskandarani   JP7.5 Nonlinear Tropical Instability Waves   Cheng Zhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and J. P. Boyd   JP7.6 A new look at hurricane intensity: perspectives from a dry and moist hurricane frameworks   Agnieszka A. S. Mrowiec, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. T. Garner and O. Pauluis   JP7.7 Spontaneous-adjustment emission of inertia-gravity waves by unsteady vortical motion in the hurricane core   Eric Hendricks, NRL, Monterey, CA; and W. H. Schubert, S. R. Fulton, and B. D. McNoldy
	4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday, Stowe Room Joint Poster Session 8 Mixing within the Ocean and Atmosphere (Joint between the 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and the 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere)
Organizer: Thomas W. N. Haine, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
JP8.1 Vertical structure of horizontal currents in global eddying OGCMs   Robert Bruce Scott, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and B. K. Arbic   JP8.2 Vertical transport due to submesoscale processes in the upper ocean   Amit Tandon, Univ. of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, MA; and A. Mahadevan   JP8.4 Saturation of the internal tides and induced mixing in the abyssal ocean   Caroline Jane Muller, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and O. Buhler
Friday, 12 June 2009
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Friday, Pinnacle BC Session 13 Interactions Between Tropical Convection and the Large Scale Circulation II
Chair: William R. Boos, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
8:00 AM 13.1 Convectively-coupled gravity waves in the tropics   Stefan N. Tulich, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Kiladis 8:20 AM 13.2 Gravity waves in shear and implications for organized convection   Samuel N. Stechmann, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and A. J. Majda 8:40 AM 13.3 Comparison of the analytical and numerical model for convectively coupled gravity waves   Zeljka Fuchs, University of Split, Split, Croatia; and S. L. Sessions and D. J. Raymond 9:00 AM 13.4 Horizontal scale selection associated with mesoscale gravity wave - convection coupling   Todd P. Lane, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and F. Zhang 9:20 AM 13.5 MJO sensitivity to basic state and parameterization in an atmospheric general circulation model   Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. M. Hannah 9:40 AM 13.6 A simple dynamical model with features of convective momentum transport   Andrew J. Majda, New York University, New York, NY; and S. N. Stechmann
	10:00 AM-10:20 AM, Friday, Atrium Coffee Break
	10:20 AM-12:20 PM, Friday, Pinnacle BC Session 14 Interactions between Tropical Convection and the Large Scale Circulation III
Chair: Samuel N. Stechmann, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
10:20 AM 14.1 Control of convective precipitation over warm tropical oceans   David J. Raymond, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and S. L. Sessions and Z. Fuchs 10:40 AM 14.2 Responses of cumulus ensembles to temperature and moisture perturbations   Zhiming Kuang, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 11:00 AM 14.3 Multiple equilibria of the tropical atmosphere: from single columns to the Hadley circulation   Gilles Bellon, CNRM, Toulouse, France 11:20 AM 14.4 Multiple equilibria in a cumulus ensemble model employing the weak temperature gradient approximation   Sharon L. Sessions, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and D. J. Raymond, A. H. Sobel, and S. Sugaya 11:40 AM 14.5 Mechanism of poleward propagating, intraseasonal convective anomalies in a model with explicit convection   William R. Boos, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and Z. Kuang 12:00 PM 14.6 A new approach for large-scale tropical convective dynamics based on asymptotic nondivergence   Jun-Ichi Yano, CNRM, Toulouse, France, Toulouse, France; and M. Bonazolla, S. Mulet, K. Delayen, S. Hagas, and C. Zhang

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