26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 15B: Large-scale circulation II

Thursday, 6 May 2004: 3:45 PM-5:15 PM
Napoleon I Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Chair:  Wayne H. Schubert, Colorado State University
Papers:
  3:45 PM
An idealized Walker model coupled to an ocean mixed layer
Matthew E. Peters, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Poster PDF (193.4 kB)
  4:00 PM
Dynamics and Instabilities of the ITCZ
Violeta E. Toma, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster

  4:15 PM
The Eastern Pacific ITCZ during the Boreal Spring
Guojun Gu, NASA/GSFC and ESSIC, Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler and A. H. Sobel

  4:30 PM
ITCZ breakdown: an observational study over the tropical East Pacific
Chia-chi Wang, University of California, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir

  4:45 PM
A moist model of the Hadley circulation with wind dependent surface fluxes
Samuel P. Burns, Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. H. Sobel and L. M. Polvani

Poster PDF (81.0 kB)
  5:00 PM
Hadley cell or no Hadley cell, that is the question
Chidong Zhang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and M. G. McGauley and N. A. Bond