Session 17 Ocean and Atmosphere General Circulation 2

Thursday, 16 June 2011: 10:45 AM-12:30 PM
Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair:
Paola Cessi, SIO, Caspo, La Jolla, CA

Papers:
10:45 AM
17.1
The tropospheric response to prescribed tropical and subtropical zonally-asymmetric torques: analytical and idealized model results
William R. Boos, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and T. A. Shaw
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
17.2
A robust mechanism for strengthening of the Brewer-Dobson circulation in response to climate change: critical-layer control of subtropical wave breaking
Theodore G. Shepherd, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and C. McLandress
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
17.3
Seasonality in the relationship between the Hadley cell and the eddy-driven jet and their response to climate change forcing
Jian Lu, COLA, Calverton, MD; and G. Chen and T. Reichler
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
17.4
Barotropic instability and the latitude of the surface westerlies
Joseph Kidston, Univ. of New South Wales, UNSW SYdney, NSW, Australia; and G. K. Vallis
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
17.5
Atmospheric teleconnection of North Atlantic cooling to the Southern Hemisphere westerlies
John C.H. Chiang, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. Y. Lee

12:00 PM
17.6
On the possible link between tropical convection and the Northern Hemisphere Arctic surface air temperature change between 1958—2001
Sukyoung Lee, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and T. Gong, N. Johnson, S. B. Feldstein, and D. Pollard

12:15 PM
17.7
The role of stationary eddies in shaping storm track dynamics
Yohai Kaspi, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider
Recorded Presentation

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