Session 16A |
| | Tropical Climatology and Climate Change II |
| | Chair: Morris A. Bender, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
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| 10:15 AM | 16A.1 | States of Tropical Convection and their Relationship to SST Variability
 Recorded presentation
Christian Jakob, Monash University, Melbourne., Victoria, Australia; and M. S. Singh and C. Schumacher |
| 10:30 AM | 16A.2 | An objective climatology of tropical plumes
Luise Froehlich, Univ. of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and P. Knippertz and A. H. Fink |
| 10:45 AM | 16A.3 | Historical contribution of African dust outbreaks to northern tropical Atlantic temperatures
Recorded presentation
Amato Evan, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Mukhopadhyay |
| 11:00 AM | 16A.4 | Spatio-temporal variability of aerosol in the tropics and its relationship with the hydrological cycle
Manuel D. Zuluaga, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. D. Hoyos, P. J. Webster, and J. A. Curry |
| 11:15 AM | 16A.5 | The ITCZ, easterly wave generation, equatorial westerlies: A common solution for some fundamental questions in the tropics
Recorded presentation
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
| 11:30 AM | 16A.6 | The Neutral Phases of ENSO: Are They Really Neutral?
Scott Melaragno, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and J. Lin and E. Fraza |
| 11:45 AM | 16A.7 | Climate mechanisms responsible for the dramatic decline in global tropical cyclone activity
Ryan N. Maue, Florida State University & Naval Research Laboratory - Monterey, Tallahassee, FL |