Session 7D Tropical Convection I

Wednesday, 26 April 2006: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Big Sur (Hyatt Regency Monterey)
Host: 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Organizer:
Courtney Schumaker, Texas A&M, College Station, TX

Papers:
8:00 AM
7D.1
On the role of cross-equatorial pressure gradients in the development of tropical convection over the Eastern Pacific Ocean: A Modeling Study
Violeta Toma, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster

8:15 AM
7D.2
The origin of systematic errors in the GCM simulation of ITCZ precipitation
Winston C. Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez, J. T. Bacmeister, B. Chen, and L. L. Takacs
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (1.4 MB)

8:30 AM
7D.3
The boundary layer contribution to intertropical convergence zones in the quasi-equilibrium tropical circulation model framework
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and J. D. Neelin
Recorded presentation

8:45 AM
7D.4
Geographic variability in the export of moist static energy in the Tropical Pacific
Larissa E. Back, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Recorded presentation

9:00 AM
7D.5
Meridional moisture transport by tropical synoptic scale disturbances over the Pacific and Atlantic basins
Chia-chi Wang, Department of Earth System Science, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (417.1 kB)

9:15 AM
7D.6
Convectively coupled waves in DARE simulations on an equatorial β-plane
Zhiming Kuang, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Recorded presentation

9:30 AM
7D.7
A simple, vertically resolved model of tropical disturbances with a humidity closure
Zeljka Fuchs, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and D. J. Raymond

Presentation PDF (87.0 kB)

9:45 AM
7D.8
Variability of deep convective cloud characteristics across the tropical Pacific
Michael P. Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Recorded presentation

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