Session 2B |
| | Tropical Climatology and Climate Change |
| | Chair: C. Zhang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
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| 10:15 AM | 2B.1 | A new set of mean soundings for the tropical North Atlantic and Caribbean Sea 
Jason P. Dunion, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 10:30 AM | 2B.2 | Latent heating profiles over the tropical oceans
Samson M. Hagos, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang |
| 10:45 AM | 2B.3 | A climatology of ocean temperature forcing by aerosols across the tropical Atlantic
Amato Evan, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Heidinger, R. Bennartz, N. Mahowald, and C. S. Velden |
| 11:00 AM | 2B.4 | Characterizing the synoptic timescale ITCZ in the eastern to central Pacific
Gudrun Magnusdottir, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and C. C. Wang, H. Stern, P. Smyth, and L. Scharenbroich |
| 11:15 AM | 2B.5 | A Comparison of Subtropical Storms in the South Atlantic Basin with Australian East-Coast Cyclones 
Aviva J. Braun, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
| 11:30 AM | 2B.6 | Troposphere Cloud Ice: Satellite Measurements, ECMWF and GEOS5 Analyses, and GCM Simulations
Jui-Lin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Waliser, C. P. Woods, J. D. Chern, J. Bacmeister, J. Jiang, D. Genio, R. Rossow, M. Kharitondov, H. Meng, P. Minnis, S. S. Mack, A. M. Tompkins, W. K. Tao, Z. Kuang, D. G. Vane, G. Stephens, and D. L. Wu |
| 11:45 AM | 2B.7 | Robust projections of vertical wind shear changes for the 21st Century
Brian J. Soden, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and G. A. Vecchi |