Joint Session 3 Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability

Program Chairs: Ángel F. Adames , University of Michigan ; Naoko Sakaeda , Univ. of Oklahoma ; Scott W. Powell , Colorado State Univ.

- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates paper is an Award Winner

Sunday, 6 January 2019

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome; the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 16th Conference on Space Weather; the 17th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Symposium on Education; the 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Phased Array Radar Symposium; the Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation; the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; the Richard Anthes Symposium; the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the Events )
Moderator: Michael Henry, American Institute of Physics
Presider: Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Speakers: Dan Kahan, American Institute of Physics; David Goldston, MIT
4:00 PM
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times

Monday, 7 January 2019

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 1
MJO/BSISO and Convection over the Maritime Continent
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
Cochairs: Scott W. Powell, Colorado State Univ.; Maria Flatau, NRL
8:45 AM
1.2
Role of the Diurnal Cycle of Land Convection in the Barrier Effect on the MJO by the Maritime Continent
Chidong Zhang, Univ. of Miami and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. Ling

9:00 AM
1.3
The Diurnal Cycle of Column Water Vapor over Sumatra
Giuseppe Torri, Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and D. K. Adams and Z. Kuang

9:30 AM
1.5
The Relationship between the Boreal Summertime Madden–Julian Oscillation and Tropical Deep Convection
Benjamin A. Toms, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever, E. Riley Dellaripa, S. M. Saleeby, and E. D. Maloney

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019


AM Coffee Break (Monday)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 2
Tropical Convective Dynamics
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
Cochairs: Ángel F. Adames, Univ. of Michigan; Giuseppe Torri, Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa
10:30 AM
2.1
A Stochastic Transition Matrix Approach to Modeling of the Population Dynamics of Clouds
Samson Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and Z. Feng, R. A. Houze Jr., R. Plant, and A. Protat
10:45 AM
2.2
Controls on Deep-Convective Precipitation and the Dialogue with the Mesoscale
J. David Neelin, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and F. Ahmed, K. A. Schiro, Y. H. Kuo, and C. Martinez-Villalobos
11:00 AM
2.3
Organization of Precipitation Clusters in a Simple Stochastic Model
Fiaz Ahmed, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin
11:15 AM
2.4
Ertel Potential Vorticity Charging in the Tropical Atmosphere
Hing Ong, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy
11:30 AM
2.5
Representation of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in Model E2.1: Role of the Mean State and Air–Sea Interaction
Daehyun Kim, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. S. Ahn, A. D. Del Genio, J. Wu, and L. Nazarenko
11:45 AM
2.6
Index Intercomparison for MJO Event Termination
Brett Chrisler, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and J. P. Stachnik

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Lunch Break (Monday)

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 3
Monsoon Variability
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
Chair: Ángel F. Adames, Univ. of Michigan
2:00 PM
3.1
Air–Sea Interactions during Indian Ocean Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations
Jaynise M. Perez, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and H. J. S. Fernando, E. D. Creegan, K. Woods, G. Black, A. V. Rydbeck, W. Hemantha, R. Krishnamurthy, J. E. Stailey, A. Tandon, and E. Shroyer
2:15 PM
3.2
The Formation and Growth of Monsoon Depressions within the South Asian Monsoon
Michael Diaz, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and W. Boos
2:30 PM
3.3A
Trends in Tropical Wave Activity from the 1980s to 2016
Ajay Raghavendra, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy and L. Zhou

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 4
Tropical Waves
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
Chair: Naoko Sakaeda, Univ. of Oklahoma
3:00 PM
4.1
On Misinterpretation of the Background Spectrum of Tropical OLR Anomalies
Paul E. Roundy, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY
3:15 PM
4.2
Need to Update the Tropical Wave/MJO Paradigm
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman

3:30 PM
4.3
African Easterly Wave–Mesoscale Convective Coupled Systems That Are Potential Candidates for Tropical Cyclogenesis
Kelly Marie Nunez Ocasio, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park,, PA; and J. L. Evans
3:45 PM
4.4
Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in the Models of the MJOTF/GASS Global MJO Model Comparison Project
Alejandro Jaramillo, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and D. K. Adams, A. I. Quintanar, G. N. Kiladis, and J. Dias

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Formal Poster Viewing Reception
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Session
7MJO Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
296
Energetics of Convectively Coupled Tropical Phenomena
Brandon O. Wolding, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Dias, G. N. Kiladis, and E. Maloney

298
Dynamics-Based Analysis of Waves in the Tropics
Zhaohua Wu, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. Sun

300
The Kelvin and Mixed Rossby Gravity Waves on the Spherical Earth
Nathan Paldor, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalam, Israel; and I. fouxon, O. Shamir, and C. I. Garfinkel

301
Scaling for the Nontraditional Coriolis Term in Diabatic-Forced Dynamics
Hing Ong, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy

Handout (353.6 kB)

302
Intraseasonal SST Forcing of Atmospheric Convection in the Western Indian Ocean Using an Idealized Model
Adam V. Rydbeck, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and T. Jensen, M. Flatau, and M. R. Igel

304
On the Role of Synoptic Eddies in MJO Initiation
Ahmed A. Shaaban, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy

305
Effects of Air–Sea Coupling on the Simulation of DYNAMO MJO Events
Rachel C. Zelinsky, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. Kirtman

307
Air–Sea Interaction over the Maritime Continent during the 2018 Boreal Summer Monsoon Simulated by Coupled Air–Sea–Wave COAMPS
Tommy Jensen, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and A. V. Rydbeck, S. Chen, M. Flatau, C. Reynolds, and J. Pullen

308
Topographic Influence on African Easterly Wave Energetics and Convective Interactions
Kelly Marie Nunez Ocasio, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park,, PA; and H. L. Hamilton and J. L. Evans

310
Indian Ocean Dipole Modoki (IODM) and Its Impacts on Three-Dimensional Heating Structure and Precipitation
Debanjana Das, Calcutta Univ., KOLKATA, VA, India; and D. M. Straus, S. Chaudhuri, and A. Roy Chowdhury

311
Ocean Feedbacks to the MJO in CMIP5 models
Charlotte A. DeMott, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Bohman and D. A. Randall

312
Simulating Multiple Aggregates in a Small-Domain 3D Cloud-Resolving Model
Da Yang, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA

313
Influence of the Equatorial Waves on the Subseasonal Western Pacific Monsoon Variability
Sue Chen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. K. Flatau and J. Schmidt

315
Propagation Characteristics of BSISO Indices
Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and D. Ma, A. H. Sobel, and M. K. Tippett

316
The Role of the Free-Tropospheric Moisture for Convective Onset from Radio Occultation
Yi-Hung Kuo, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and R. Padullés, J. Turk, M. de la Torre, C. O. Ao, and J. D. Neelin

317
Investigating the Dual-MJO Events of November 2011 in 30-Day Regional COAMPS Simulations. Part II: Surface Fluxes and Moisture Convergence
William A. Komaromi, NRL, Monterey, CA; and X. Hong, M. A. Janiga, C. A. Reynolds, J. A. Ridout, and J. D. Doyle

319
Intraseasonal Monsoon Variability during PISTON and MISO-BOB Campaigns
Maria Flatau, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Chen, E. Regan, A. V. Rydbeck, H. Wijesekera, and T. Jensen

320
Instability and Nonlinear Evolution of the MJO in a Model with Vertically Varying Convective Adjustment
H. Reed Ogrosky, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA; and S. N. Stechmann and S. Hottovy

365A
MJO Affects the Monsoon Onset Timing over the Indian Region
Fuqing Zhang, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and S. Talaphadar and X. Chen

322
Role of Topography on the Diurnal Cycle in the Maritime Continent during the Passage of an MJO Event
Pallav Ray, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and H. Tan and B. S. Barrett

323
Multiscale Interactions in MJO Structure and Evolution: DYNAMO Field Campaign Case Study Using a Coupled WRF Model
Xiaowen Li, Morgan State Univ., Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Nicholls, T. Iguchi, and W. K. Tao

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Exhibits Opening and Reception
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 5
Tropical Cyclones: Subseasonal to Interannual Variability and Prediction
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Chairs: C.-C. Wu, National Taiwan Univ.; Carl J. Schreck III, North Carolina State Univ.
10:30 AM
J5.1
Dependence of Intraseasonal Tropical Cyclone Prediction on the MJO in the S2S Dataset
Chia-Ying Lee, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and S. J. Camargo, S. Wang, F. Vitart, A. H. Sobel, and M. K. Tippett
10:45 AM
J5.2A
Impact of Central American Orography on Simulation of Eastern North Pacific Hurricanes
Dan Fu, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Chang, R. Saravanan, and C. M. Patricola
11:00 AM
J5.3
Extratropical Impacts on Tropical Cyclone Activity: A Global Perspective
Zhuo Wang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and G. Zhang

11:15 AM
J5.4
J5.5
Paper J5.5 has moved. New Paper Number is 4.6A.

11:30 AM
J5.5AA
Intraseasonal Variability of the Gulf Stream Current: Physical Mechanisms and Connections to Atmospheric Forcing
Bradford S. Barrett, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and A. R. Davies and K. Martin
11:45 AM
J5.6
Multiyear Variability and Prediction of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Chuan-Chieh Chang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and Z. Wang

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Extratropical Impacts Linked to MJO and Monsoon Variability
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Cochairs: Lawrence Gloeckler III, Riskpulse; Nick Keener, Duke Energy
1:45 PM
J4.2

Wednesday, 9 January 2019

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 5
Variability and Predictability of Climate on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Time Scales—Part I
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Chair: Naoko Sakaeda, Univ. of Oklahoma
8:30 AM
J5.1
8:45 AM
J5.2
9:00 AM
J5.3
MJO Predictive Skill and Impacts in the Navy Earth System Model
Matthew Adam Janiga, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. J. Schreck III, J. Ridout, M. Flatau, N. Barton, W. A. Komaromi, and C. A. Reynolds
9:15 AM
J5.4
Variability in CFSv2 Hindcast Skill for the MJO and Equatorial Waves
Carl J. Schreck III, North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC; and M. A. Janiga and A. R. Aiyyer
9:45 AM
J5.6

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Connections between Tropical Convection and the Stratosphere—Part I
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Cochairs: Chaim I. Garfinkel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem; Lon L. Hood, The Univ. of Arizona
1:30 PM
J1.1
Interannual and Intraseasonal Variations in Stratospheric Gravity Waves and Relationships to Tropical Convection (Invited Presentation)
M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and C. Liu, J. Richter, J. T. Bacmeister, and A. Hertzog
2:00 PM
J1.3
Impact of the QBO on Prediction and Predictability of the MJO Convection
Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and M. K. Tippett, A. H. Sobel, Z. K. Martin, and F. Vitart

2:15 PM
J1.4A

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 2
Connections between Tropical Convection and the Stratosphere—Part II
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Cochairs: Malori Redman, The Univ. of Arizona; Shigeo Yoden, Kyoto Univ.
3:00 PM
J2.1
QBO–MJO Connections: Physical Mechanisms and Seasonality
Casey R Densmore, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and B. S. Barrett and E. R. Sanabia
3:15 PM
J2.2
Modeling the MJO–QBO Relationship in a Reforecast Model
Zane K Martin, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and S. Wang, F. Vitart, and A. H. Sobel
3:45 PM
J2.4

Thursday, 10 January 2019

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Connections between Tropical Convection and the Stratosphere—Part III
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Cochairs: Casey R. Densmore, U.S. Naval Academy; Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ.
9:15 AM
J3.4