Session 12D Tropical Large Scale Circulation and Intraseasonal Variability I

Thursday, 19 April 2012: 10:30 AM-12:15 PM
Masters E (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

**Indicates paper is being considered for the Max Eaton Student Prize**

Chair:
Adam H. Sobel, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY
Papers:
  11:00 AM
Simulations of Walker circulation with sparse space and time superparameterization
Joanna Slawinska, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and O. Pauluis, A. J. Majda, and W. W. Grabowski

  11:15 AM
The Deep and Shallow Hadley Circulations
Alex Omar Gonzalez, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

  11:30 AM
A Mesoscale Decomposition of the Tropical Hadley Cell
Justin P. Stachnik, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. Schumacher and C. L. Lappen

  11:45 AM
  12:00 PM
Decadal change of tropical precipitation associated with Indo-Pacific zonal oscillation
Jian Liu, Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment of Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China; and B. Wang and S. Y. Yim