Session 16 Ocean and Atmosphere General Circulation

Thursday, 16 June 2011: 8:30 AM-10:15 AM
Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair:
William R. Boos, Yale Univ., Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT

Papers:
8:30 AM
16.1
Modeling the ocean's adiabatic pole-to-pole overturning circulation
Christopher L. Wolfe, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and P. Cessi

8:45 AM
16.2
9:00 AM
16.3
A new mechanism for ocean-atmosphere coupling in midlatitudes
Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
9:30 AM
16.5
The moist isentropic circulation from a dry isentropic perspective
Frederic Laliberte, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and O. Pauluis and T. A. Shaw
9:45 AM
16.6
What determines the height of the tropopause?
Geoffrey K. Vallis, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and P. Zurita-Gotor
10:00 AM
16.7
Counter-gradient eddy fluxes of potential vorticity near the subtropical jet
Thomas Birner, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. W. J. Thompson

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