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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Jason P. Dunion, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 10:30 AM | 2B.2 | Latent heating profiles over the tropical oceans ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) 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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) 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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) 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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) 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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) 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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Brian J. Soden, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and G. A. Vecchi |