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
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| 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 |