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Sunday, 12 June 2011

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5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 12 June 2011


Registration Opens

Monday, 13 June 2011

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7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 13 June 2011


Registration Hours

8:45 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 13 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 1
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Modeling
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Volkmar Wirth, Univ. of Mainz
8:45 AM
1.1
Scale–invariant horizontal diffusion in a global circulation model
Urs Schaefer-Rolffs, Institut für Atmosphärenphysik, Kühlungsborn, Germany; and E. Becker
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
1.2
A simple yet effective time-stepping improvement
Paul D. Williams, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
1.3
A modeling framework to study interaction between resolved and parameterized waves
Naftali Cohen, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and E. P. Gerber
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
1.4
Simulations of tropical intra-seasonal variability using a hierarchical regional modeling framework
Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. M. Hagos
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
1.5
Marine boundary layer clouds and their interaction with the large-scale atmospheric circulation: an idealized-GCM study
Zhihong Tan, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and R. Lam, T. Schneider, and J. Teixeira
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM
1.6
On the relationship between uncertainties in tropical divergence and the hydrological cycle in global models
Samson M. Hagos, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. R. Leung
Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 13 June 2011


Coffee Break
Location: Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

10:45 AM-12:30 PM: Monday, 13 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 2
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Modeling 2
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Paul D. Williams, University of Reading
10:45 AM
2.1
Dynamics in high-Rossby-number regimes and the transition to superrotation
Jonathan L. Mitchell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and G. K. Vallis
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
2.2
Convective generation of equatorial superrotation in planetary atmospheres
Junjun Liu, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
2.3
Investigating the land-ocean surface warming contrast in simulations of climate change with an idealized GCM
Michael P. Byrne, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. A. O'Gorman
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
2.4
Precipitation response to 21st-century global warming: a model-by-model theory-model comparison
Jacob S. Scheff, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. M. W. Frierson
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
2.5
A simple GCM model study on the relationship between ENSO and the Southern Annular Mode
Tingting Gong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China; and S. B. Feldstein and D. Luo
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM
2.6
Zonally asymmetric ozone and its effect on the planetary waveguide
John R. Albers, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. P. McCormack and T. Nathan
Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM
2.7
Coupled ocean-atmosphere extended-range probabilistic prediction at ECMWF
Roberto Buizza, ECMWF, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 13 June 2011


Lunch Break

2:00 PM-3:30 PM: Monday, 13 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 3
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Modeling 3
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Jonathan L. Mitchell, Univ. of California
2:00 PM
3.1
Medium range ensemble sensitivity analyses of two extreme Pacific extratropical cyclones. Part II: Validating ensemble sensitivity using perturbed initial conditions experiments
Edmund K. M. Chang, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and M. Zheng
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
3.2
Tropopause polar cyclone intensity sensitivity to surface boundary conditions
Steven M. Cavallo, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM
3.3
Revisiting the dynamics of sea/gust fronts and their role in triggering deep convection
Francis J. Robinson, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and S. Sherwood and M. Patterson
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
3.4
Dynamics of orographic banner clouds
Volkmar Wirth, Univ. of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; and M. Voigt, D. Reinert, and B. Broetz

3:00 PM
3.5
Investigation into the sources of infrasound emitted by severe storms
David A. Schecter, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and M. E. Nicholls

3:15 PM
3.6
Self-aggregation in a cloud resolving model
Caroline Jane Muller, GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and I. M. Held

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 13 June 2011


Coffee Break
Location: Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 13 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 4
Transport and Mixing
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Thomas W. N. Haine, Johns Hopkins Univ.
4:00 PM
4.1
New methods for estimating poleward eddy heat transport using satellite altimetry
Shane R. Keating, Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and A. J. Majda and K. S. Smith
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
4.2
Finite-scale dispersion in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean: analysis of Lagrangian drifters data
Stefano Berti, IPSL, Paris, France; and F. dos Santos, G. Lacorata, and A. Vulpiani
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
4.3
On the relation between topography and eddy mixing in the Southern Ocean
Jianhua Lu, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and K. Speer
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
4.4
Lagrangian coherent structures in tropical cyclone intensification
Blake Rutherford, NPS, Monterey, CA; and M. T. Montgomery
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
4.5
The advection-condensation model and water vapor PDFs
William R. Young, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and J. Sukhatme
Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM
4.6
Applications of the transilient matrix to atmospheric transport
David M. Romps, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 13 June 2011


Poster Session 1
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Modeling Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
1
Sea-glacier flow in frozen worlds
Dawei Li, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and R. T. Pierrehumbert

2
Inertia-gravity-wave breaking: primary and secondary instabilities
Mark D. Fruman, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and U. Achatz and S. Hickel

3
Generation of boundary layer waves by the interaction of free-stream long waves with a wavy boundary
Wayne L. Hacker, Pima College, Tucson, AZ

4
The impacts of effective diffusion on the axisymmetrization process
Stephen Guimond, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

5
Abrupt transition to strong superrotation driven by equatorial wave resonance in an idealized GCM
Nathan P. Arnold, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and E. Tziperman

6
The dynamical processes associated with the growth and decay of the circumglobal teleconnetion pattern
Steven B. Feldstein, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

7
Abrupt circulation responses of the stratosphere-troposphere coupled system to climate change-like forcing in a relatively simple AGCM
Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and E. P. Gerber and L. M. Polvani

8
Communicating lower stratospheric ozone losses to the arctic polar vortex: Role of zonally asymmetric ozone
John R. Albers, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and T. Nathan

Handout (703.7 kB)

9
The role of diabatically generated potential vorticity in the North Atlantic stormtrack
Jeff A. Willison, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and W. A. Robinson and D. G. Lackmann

10
Uncertainty generation in atmospheric and oceanic models
X. San Liang, China Institute for Advanced Study, Beijing, Beijing, China

11
Medium range ensemble sensitivity analyses of two extreme Pacific extratropical cyclones. Part I: Comparison of different forecast metrics
Minghua Zheng, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and E. K. M. Chang

12
Prediction for New Jersey coastal flooding at the Delaware Bay under climate change conditions
Simon Kraatz, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and H. Tang

Handout (1.5 MB)

13
Modeled patterns of regional sea level rise around Taiwan
Chih-Chieh Young, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Y. H. Tseng and M. L. Shen

14
Parallel domain-decomposed eddy-resolving Taiwan multi-scale community ocean model
Mu-hua Chien, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Y. H. Tseng

Hadley Circulation and Methane Cycle on Titan


Poster Session 2
Low-Frequency Variability Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
15
The link between Rossby wave breakings and weather regimes transitions
Clio Michel, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and G. Riviere

16
The variability of the extratropical baroclinicity and its implication for zonal index persistence
Javier Blanco-Fuentes, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; and P. Zurita-Gotor

17
The structure of Southern Hemisphere tropospheric zonal flow in climate model simulations
Michael T. Makiyama, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and H. P. Huang

18
Modeling North Pacific decadal variations and their teleconnection patterns
Pei-Ning Feng, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Y. H. Tseng

19
Diabatic damping of zonal index variations
Xiaoming Xia, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and Y. Guo and E. K. M. Chang

20
The influence of solar variability on the atmosphere and ocean dynamics
Pei-Yu Chueh, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Y. H. Tseng

21
Stochastic variability of oceanic flows above topography
Antoine Venaille, NOAA/GFDL/Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and J. Le Sommer, J. M. Molines, and B. Barnier


Poster Session 3
Transport and Mixing Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
22
Surface circulation and eddy mixing in the Nordic Seas from clustered drifters
Inga Koszalka, Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; and J. H. LaCasce, M. Andersson, C. Mauritzen, and K. A. Orvik

Handout (18.4 MB)

23
What is the right mixing length for water vapor transport in the storm tracks?
Rodrigo Caballero, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden

24
Enhancement of critical layer mixing by barotropic instability
Richard K. Scott, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom; and L. A. Smy

25
A unified representation of convective boundary-layer processes coupled to a probabilistic cloud closure: tests in an idealized GCM
Rémi Lam, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider, J. Teixeira, and Z. Tan


Formal Poster Viewing with Reception and Cash Bar

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

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7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011


Registration Hours

8:30 AM-10:15 AM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 5
Low-Frequency Variability
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Gwendal Riviere, CNRM
8:30 AM
5.1
The shifting NAO and cyclonic Rossby Wave Breaking
Yi-Hui Wang, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir

8:45 AM
5.2
Tropospheric Rossby wave breaking and the SAM
Gudrun Magnusdottir, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and Y. H. Wang
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
5.3
Behavior and occurrence of poleward Rossby wave breaking events on the boreal hemisphere
Dieter H. W. Peters, Univ. of Rostock, Kühlungsborn, Mecklenburg, Germany; and A. Schneidereit and A. Gabriel
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
5.4
Zonal-index persistence in the two-layer model
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and J. Blanco-Fuentes

Paper 5.5 has been moved to Poster Session 2

9:30 AM
5.5A
Interpretations of Coupled Forecast System systematic errors at leads of 2d, 4d, 8d,...256d
Siwon Song, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. E. Mapes
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
5.6
Effect of latitude on the variability of eddy-driven jets
Elizabeth A. Barnes, Fort Collins, CO; and D. L. Hartmann
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM
5.7
A multi-dimensional spectral description of ocean variability
Cimarron J. L. Wortham, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and C. Wunsch

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011


Coffee Break
Location: Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

10:45 AM-11:30 AM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 6
Low-Frequency Variability 2
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Gudrun Magnusdottir, Univ. of California
10:45 AM
6.1
The role of ocean modes in Pacific Decadal Variability
Wilbert Weijer, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Muñoz, N. Schneider, and F. Primeau
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
6.2
A dynamical interpretation of the poleward shift of the jet streams in global warming scenarios
Gwendal Riviere, CNRM, Toulouse, France
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
6.3
Towards understanding the extratropical atmospheric circulation response to anthropogenic forcing
David W. J. Thompson, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and A. H. Butler and T. Birner
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM-12:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 7
Tropical/Extratropical Interaction
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Edwin P. Gerber, New York Univ.
11:30 AM
7.1
The ocean's role in the tropical-extratropical interaction in an idealized AOGCM
Neven-Stjepan Fuckar, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie and R. Farneti
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
7.2
Long-term variability of the Kuroshio transport east of Taiwan and the climate it conveys
Mao-Lin Shen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Y. H. Tseng, S. Jan, C. C. Young, and M. D. Chiou
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM
7.3
The spatio-temporal spectrum of meridional and vertical water vapor transports in the tropics and subtropics
Tiffany A. Shaw, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and O. Pauluis
Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM
7.4
Is the polar amplification of surface air temperature driven by tropical forcing?
Changhyun Yoo, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. Lee
Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM-2:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011


Lunch Break

2:00 PM-3:15 PM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 8
Tropical/Extratropical Interaction 2
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Tiffany A. Shaw, Columbia Univ.
2:00 PM
8.1
Intraseasonal modulation of the North Pacific storm track by tropical convection in boreal winter
Yi Deng, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and T. Jiang
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
8.2
On the symmetry of upwelling in the tropical stratosphere
Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and R. Ueyama, J. M. Wallace, and D. M. Frierson
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM
8.3
Shifting seasonal cycle, changing monsoons, and the role of sea ice
John G. Dwyer, Columbia Univ., New York, NY
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
8.4
Intermittent African easterly wave activity in a dry atmospheric model: influence of the extratropics
Stephanie Leroux, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and N. M. J. Hall and G. N. Kiladis
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM
8.5
Equatorially trapped waves in a barotropic-baroclinic background shear flow
Maryam Namazi, Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; and B. Khouider
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM-3:45 PM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011


Coffee Break
Location: Pennington C/Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

3:45 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 9
Mesoscale and sub-mesoscale dynamics
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Antoine Venaille, NOAA/GFDL/Princeton Univ.
9.1
Mixing, Eddies, and all that: Ocean Parameterization Developments from 4m to 400km

3:45 PM
9.2
The evolution and propagation of quasigeostrophic ocean eddies
Jeffrey J. Early, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and R. M. Samelson and D. B. Chelton

4:00 PM
9.3
On the appropriateness of the baroclinic mode or the SQG dynamics to describe the surface mesoscale motions
Guillaume Lapeyre, LMD, Paris, France
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
9.4
A constraint on the magnitude and structure of eddy potential vorticity fluxes
James R. Maddison, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; and D. P. Marshall and P. S. Berloff
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
9.5
On the effect of strain on symmetric instability
Leif N. Thomas, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
9.6
Geostrophic turbulence near rapid changes in stratification
K. Shafer Smith, New York Univ., New York, NY; and E. Bernard
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM-6:45 PM: Tuesday, 14 June 2011


Poster Session 4
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Theory Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
26
Investigation of vertically sheared flow in turbulent convection
Da Zhu, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and G. R. Flierl and D. Goluskin

27
Subgrid scale closure for the Burgers equation based on stochastic mode reduction
Stamen Dolaptchiev, Goethe Universität, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and U. Achatz and I. Timofeyev

28
The application of wave-activity conservation laws to cloud resolving model simulations of multiscale tropical convection
Tiffany A. Shaw, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and T. P. Lane

29
Linear baroclinic instability of an eddy-free reference state atmosphere
Lei Wang, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and N. Nakamura

30
Sensitivity of the atmospheric storm-track to an oceanic SST front
Bruno Deremble, IPSL, Paris, France; and G. Lapeyre and M. Ghil

31
Zonostrophic instability
Kaushik Srinivasan, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and W. R. Young

32
Response of the sea ice seasonal cycle to climate change

33
Gyroscopes and rotating fluids: A pedagogical discussion of analogous dynamics
Thomas W. N. Haine, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. A. Cherian

34
Testing the limits of quasi-geostrophic theory
Paul D. Williams, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and P. L. Read and T. W. N. Haine

Handout (550.0 kB)

35
Canonical transfer and mean-eddy-turbulence interaction in geophysical fluid flows
X. San Liang, China Institute for Advanced Study, Beijing, Beijing, China

36
Impacts of convective life-time on moist geostrophic adjustment
Juliana Dias, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and O. Pauluis

37
Do planetary wave dynamics contribute to equable climates?
Sukyoung Lee, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. B. Feldstein, D. Pollard, and T. White

38
Theoretical modeling of the effect of ocean spray on vertical momentum transport under high-wind conditions
Yevgenii Rastigejev, North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin


Poster Session 5
Dynamics of Southern Ocean Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
39
On the mechanisms of late 20th century sea-surface temperature trends over the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Sergey Kravtsov, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and J. M. Peters, I. V. Kamenkovich, and A. M. Hogg

40
On the effect of Southern Ocean eddies on ocean carbon storage and atmospheric pCO2
David R. Munday, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, OXON, United Kingdom; and S. Daines, H. J. Johnson, and D. P. Marshall

41
A theory of deep stratification and overturning circulation in the ocean
Maxim Nikurashin, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia; and G. K. Vallis

42
Transport of a quasigeostrophic Antrctic circumpolar current
Louis-Philippe Nadeau, New York Univ., New York, NY; and D. Straub and D. M. Holland


Poster Session 6
Mesoscale and Sub-Mesoscale Dynamics Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
43
On the generation and propagation of near-inertial waves in strongly baroclinic geostrophic ocean currents
Daniel Whitt, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; and L. N. Thomas

44
The vertical structure of geostrophic turbulence in the ocean
Antoine Venaille, NOAA/GFDL/Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis


Poster Session 7
Tropical/Extratropical Interaction Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
45
A Trajectory study of storm tracks and the midwinter precipitation characteristics over the west coast of the United States
Ju-Mee Ryoo, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. Kim, D. E. Waliser, E. J. Fetzer, and G. N. Kiladis

46
The relationship between the North Atlantic jet and tropical convection over the Indian and western Pacific Oceans
Jiacan Yuan, Peking Univ., Beijing, Beijing, China; and S. Lee, S. B. Feldstein, and B. Tan

47
The changes in atmospheric poleward energy transport with global warming
Yen-Ting Hwang, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. M. Frierson

48
Southern hemisphere extra-tropical forcing on ENSO -observation and model comparisons
Han-Ching Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Y. H. Tseng

49
A scatterring theory for the interaction of tropical and extratropical waves
Joseph A. Biello, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and G. Kiladis


Formal Poster Viewing with Reception and Cash Bar

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

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7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011


Registration Hours

8:30 AM-10:15 AM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 10
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Theory
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Paul A. O'Gorman, MIT
8:30 AM
10.1
Finite-amplitude wave activity and mean-flow adjustment in the atmosphere
Noboru Nakamura, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
10.2
Interaction of the subtropical and eddy-driven jets in idealized models
Amanda K. O'Rourke, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and G. K. Vallis

9:00 AM
10.3
Momentum balance of the wind-driven and meridional overturning circulation
Helen Rose Pillar, Oxford Univ., Oxford, United Kingdom; and D. Marshall
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
10.4
Macroturbulent equilibration in a thermally forced primitive equation system
Malte F. Jansen, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. Ferrari
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
10.5
On the interactions between planetary geostrophy and mesoscale eddies in the oceans
I. G. Grooms, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and K. Julien and B. Fox-Kemper
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
10.6
The nature of zonal jets in geostrophic turbulence
Richard K. Scott, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom; and D. G. Dritschel
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM
10.7
Oceanic rings and jets as statistical equilibriums states
Antoine Venaille, NOAA/GFDL/Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and F. Bouchet
Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011


Coffee Break
Location: Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

10:45 AM-12:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 11
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Theory 2
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Noboru Nakamura, Univ. of Chicago
10:45 AM
11.1
On the mechanism underlying the spontaneous emergence of barotropic zonal jets
Nikolaos Bakas, National and Kapodistrian Univ., Athens, Greece; and P. J. Ioannou
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
11.2
On the impact of middle-atmosphere thermal tides on the propagation and dissipation of gravity waves
Fabian Senf, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany; and U. Achatz
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
11.3
Similarities in the energetics of the ACC, mesoscale eddies, tidal internal waves, and surface gravity waves
Hidenori Aiki, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
11.4
Rossby solitary waves embedded in equatorial jets
John P. Boyd, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Zhou
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
11.5
Superrotation recipes
Tapio Schneider, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland; and J. Liu
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM
11.6
Information flow and causality within atmosphere-ocean systems
X. San Liang, China Institute for Advanced Study, Beijing, Beijing, China
Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM
11.7
Vorticity coordinates and balanced models
Scott R. Fulton, Clarkson Univ., Potsdam, NY; and L. G. Silvers and W. H. Schubert
Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM-2:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011


Lunch Break

2:00 PM-2:45 PM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 12
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Theory 3
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Richard K. Scott, University of St Andrews
2:00 PM
12.1
A new effective static stability for eddies in a moist atmosphere
Paul A. O'Gorman, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
12.2
Annular-mode-like variation in a multi-layer QG model
Yang Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and X. Yang and Y. Nie
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM
12.3
Upper vs lower level baroclinicity: a QG study of storm track latitude
Erica M. Staehling, WeatherTiger, LLC, Tallahassee, FL; and I. M. Held
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM-3:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 13
Dynamics of the Southern Ocean (Special Session)
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Stephanie N. Waterman, The University of British Columbia
2:45 PM
13.1
Impacts of wind stress on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current fronts and associated subduction
Stephanie Downes, Princeton Univ., Princeton, New Jersey; and A. Budnick, J. Sarmiento, and R. Farneti
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM
13.2
Sensitivity of the overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean to decadal changes in wind forcing
Andrew McC. Hogg, Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia; and M. P. Meredith, A. C. Naveira Garabato, and R. Farneti
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
13.3
Sensitivity of the Southern Ocean overturning circulation to surface buoyancy forcing
Adele K. Morrison, Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia; and A. M. Hogg and M. L. Ward
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011


Coffee Break
Location: Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 14
Dynamics of the Southern Ocean (special session) 2
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Stephanie Downes, Princeton Univ.
4:00 PM
14.1
Multi-decadal adjustment of the buoyancy and eddy fields in an idealized model of the Southern Ocean
Daniel C. Jones, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA; and T. Ito and N. S. Lovenduski
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
14.2
The imprint of mesoscale eddies on the sea surface temperature field and its associated heat transport
Ute Hausmann, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; and A. Czaja
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
14.3
Estimating eddy diffusivities in the Southern Ocean
Andreas Klocker, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. Ferrari
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
14.4
Rapid changes in frontal position in a simplified model of the Southern Ocean
Christopher Charles Chapman, Australian National Univ. and CSIRO Wealth From Oceans Flagship Program, Canberra, ACT, Australia; and A. M. Hogg
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
14.5
The link between isopycnal mixing and meridional overturning in a channel model of the ACC
Ryan P. Abernathey, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and J. Marshall and D. Ferreira

5:15 PM
14.6
Turbulent dissipation rates in the Southern Ocean: Lessons learned from observations in a mixing hot spot
Stephanie N. Waterman, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. C. Naveira Garabato and K. L. Polzin
Recorded Presentation

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011


Reception (Cash Bar)
Location: Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 June 2011


Session 15
Banquet with Haurwitz Memorial Lecture
Location: Marie Antoinette Ballroom (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Steven B. Feldstein, Pennsylvania State Univ.
6:30 PM
15.1
Haurwitz Memorial Lecture: Scale interactions and the generation of low-frequency variability in the atmosphere
Dennis L. Hartmann, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Thursday, 16 June 2011

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7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 16 June 2011


Registration Hours

8:30 AM-10:15 AM: Thursday, 16 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 16
Ocean and Atmosphere General Circulation
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: William R. Boos, Yale Univ.
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
A simple model of the adiabatic pole-to-pole overturning circulation
Paola Cessi, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and C. L. Wolfe
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
16.3
A new mechanism for ocean-atmosphere coupling in midlatitudes
Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
16.4
A Statistical generalization of the Transformed Eulerian-Mean circulation for an arbitrary vertical coordinate system
Olivier Pauluis, New York Univ., New York, NY; and T. A. Shaw and F. Laliberte
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
16.6
What determines the height of the tropopause?
Geoffrey K. Vallis, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and P. Zurita-Gotor
Recorded Presentation

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

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Thursday, 16 June 2011


Coffee Break
Location: Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

10:45 AM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 16 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 17
Ocean and Atmosphere General Circulation 2
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Paola Cessi, SIO
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

12:30 PM-2:00 PM: Thursday, 16 June 2011


Lunch Break

2:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 16 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 18
Stratosphere-Troposphere Interaction
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, CoRA office
2:00 PM
18.1
The thermal and dynamical tropopause definition in baroclinic wave life-cycles
Andre Richard Erler, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. Field, D. Jones, and T. G. Shepherd
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
18.2
Tropopause structure and the role of eddies
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. Lee
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM
18.3
Stratosphere–troposphere coupling in the lead-up to stratospheric sudden warmings
Daniela I.V. Domeisen, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; and R. A. Plumb
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (123.6 kB)

2:45 PM
18.4
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling during tropospheric anticyclonic wave breaking
Stephen J. Colucci, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM
18.5
Separating the role of stratospheric final warming in the Southern Hemisphere climate trends
Gang Chen, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and L. Sun and W. A. Robinson
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
18.6
The influence of the quasi-biennial oscillation on the troposphere in wintertime
Chaim I. Garfinkel, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. Hartmann
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 16 June 2011


Coffee Break
Location: Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

4:00 PM-4:45 PM: Thursday, 16 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 19
Stratosphere-Troposphere Interaction 2
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Gang Chen, Princeton University
4:00 PM
19.1
Is the Brewer-Dobson Circulation driven by tropospheric baroclinic waves or high latitude, upper stratospheric planetary waves?
John M. Wallace, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Ueyama, D. M. W. Frierson, and E. P. Gerber
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
19.2
The spectrum of equatorial wave Eliassen-Palm flux derived from high resolution satellite measurements
M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, CoRA office, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Ortland
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
19.3
Dynamics of the lower stratospheric circulation response to ENSO
Isla R. Simpson, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and T. G. Shepherd and M. Sigmond
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM-5:15 PM: Thursday, 16 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 20
Tropical Circulation
Location: Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: George N. Kiladis, ESRL
4:45 PM
20.1
A mechanism denial study on the Madden-Julian oscillation
Daehyun Kim, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and A. H. Sobel and I. S. Kang
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
20.2
A simple semi-empirical MJO model
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and E. D. Maloney
Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM-6:45 PM: Thursday, 16 June 2011


Poster Session 8
Ocean and Atmosphere General Circulation Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
50
Calculating the ocean's residual overturning circulation using flow statistics
Christopher L. Wolfe, SIO, La Jolla, CA

51
Radiative constraint and baroclinic adjustment in a gray radiation model
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and G. K. Vallis

52
Atmospheric dynamics of Earth-like tidally locked aquaplanets
Timothy M. Merlis, Princeton University and GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. Schneider

53
The response of the general circulation to climate change as a vertical rescaling
Martin S. Singh, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. A. O'Gorman

54
Analyzing storm track variations using feature tracking
Yanjuan Guo, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and E. K. M. Chang

55
Winter cold of eastern continental boundaries induced by warm ocean waters
Yohai Kaspi, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider


Poster Session 9
Stratosphere-Troposphere Interaction Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
56
Climatology of equatorial Kelvin waves and its relation to the background flow
Thomas Flannaghan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. Fueglistaler

57
Dependence of stratosphere–troposphere coupling on tropospheric jet latitude and seasonality
Chaim I. Garfinkel, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh

58
Why do lower latitude jets shift further poleward in response to heating of the tropical stratosphere?
Isla R. Simpson, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and M. Blackburn and J. D. Haigh

59
Why can't climate models capture the observed connection between seasonal snow cover and the Northern Annular Mode?
Karen L. Smith, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and P. J. Kushner, J. Cohen, and C. G. Fletcher

60
The predictability of stratospheric warming events: More from the troposphere or the stratosphere?
Lantao Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson and G. Chen


Poster Session 10
Tropical Circulation Poster
Location: Pennington C (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
61
Large-scale transients in tropical convection with zonally symmetric SST distributions
Zhiming Kuang, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and J. A. Andersen

62
A closer look at the climatology of tropical precipitation
Michela Biasutti, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and S. E. Yuter, C. D. Burleyson, and A. H. Sobel

63
Assessment of tropical intraseasonal variability in versions 2 and 3 of the GFDL atmosphere model
James J. Benedict, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. H. Sobel, E. D. Maloney, D. M. Frierson, and L. Donner

Handout (6.4 MB)

64
A systematic relationship between intraseasonal variability and mean state bias in AGCM simulations
Daehyun Kim, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and A. H. Sobel, E. D. Maloney, D. M. Frierson, and I. S. Kang

65
Tropical intraseasonal variability simulated in the NASA GISS general circulation model
Daehyun Kim, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and A. H. Sobel, A. D. Del Genio, Y. Chen, and S. J. Camargo

66
Leading modes of synoptic scale convective activity within the ITCZ
George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO

67
Dependence of equatorial Rossby waves on the background flow and extratropical forcing
Stephanie Leroux, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and G. N. Kiladis

68
Moist Hadley circulation: constraints and the role of wave-convection coupling in an aqua-planet AGCM
Takeshi Horinouchi, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

69
Dynamics and thermodynamics of tropical cyclogenesis
Saska Gjorgjievska, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and M. J. Herman and D. J. Raymond

70
Evaluation of a reduced model for investigating hurricane formation from turbulence
David A. Schecter, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA

71
Understanding the linear response functions of shallow convection using a stochastic parcel model
Ji Nie, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and Z. Kuang

72
Cloud system-resolving simulations and a simple model of an idealized Walker cell
Jonathan Wofsy, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and Z. Kuang

73
The mechanical impact of the Tibetan Plateau on the onset of the South Asian summer monsoon
Hyo Seok Park, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and J. C. H. Chiang and S. Bordoni


Formal Poster Viewing with Reception and Cash Bar

Friday, 17 June 2011

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7:30 AM-12:45 PM: Friday, 17 June 2011


Registration Hours

8:30 AM-10:15 AM: Friday, 17 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 21
Tropical Circulation 2
Location: Elizabethan Room (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Dargan M. Frierson, Univ. of Washington
8:30 AM
21.1
Spontaneous transition to superrotation driven by a large-amplitude MJO in very warm climate simulations
Rodrigo Caballero, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden; and M. Huber
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
21.2
Response of tropical climate and circulations to precession of the perihelion
Timothy M. Merlis, Princeton University and GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
21.3
The strength of the equinox Hadley circulation over a wide range of climates in a hierarchy of models
Xavier J. Levine, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and T. Schneider
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
21.4
Response of convection to relative SST: Cloud-resolving simulations in 2D and 3D
Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and A. H. Sobel

9:30 AM
21.5
Representing feedbacks from large-scale dynamics in limited domain models of tropical convection: an assessment of current approaches
Zhiming Kuang, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
21.6
Variability and change of the sea surface temperature threshold for convection
Nat Johnson, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM
21.7
Equatorial planetary waves and their signature in atmospheric variability
Kevin M. Grise, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and D. W. J. Thompson
Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Friday, 17 June 2011


Coffee Break
Location: Hall of the Doges Foyer (Davenport Hotel and Tower)

10:45 AM-12:45 PM: Friday, 17 June 2011

Recording files available
Session 22
Tropical Circulation 3
Location: Elizabethan Room (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair: Nat Johnson, Univ. of Hawaii
10:45 AM
22.1
Tracking equatorial disturbances using cloudiness data
Juliana Dias, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. N. Tulich and G. N. Kiladis
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
22.2
Understanding the multi-scale sructures in the tropics
Da Yang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and A. P. Ingersoll
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
22.3
Spectral analysis of tropical atmospheric dynamical variables using a linear shallow water modal decomposition
Maria Gehne, New York Univ., New York, NY; and R. Kleeman
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
22.4
The role of atmospheric stability in deep tropical convection
Sharon L. Sessions, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and D. J. Raymond
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
22.5
Convective quasi-equilibrium revisited
David J. Raymond, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and M. J. Herman
Recorded Presentation

22.6
The residual mean circulation driven by tropical waves

12:15 PM
22.7
ITCZ shifts in simulations of global warming
Dargan M. Frierson, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and Y. T. Hwang and S. M. Kang
Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM
22.8
Convectively coupled gravity waves in the tropics: Why do most cloud systems travel westward?
Stefan N. Tulich, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. N. Kiladis
Recorded Presentation

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