Session 16A Tropical Waves II

Friday, 20 April 2012: 2:00 PM-3:45 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:
Paul E. Roundy, SUNY, Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Albany, NY
Papers:
  2:00 PM
On the role of transitioning weather states in the initiation of African easterly waves
Ademe Mekonnen, North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC; and W. B. Rossow

  2:15 PM
African Easterly Wave variability in present and future climate simulations
R. J. Cornforth, NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and K. I. Hodges and B. J. Hoskins

  2:30 PM
Equatorial Waves in High-Resolution Satellite Observations and Reanalysis Products
M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, CoRA office, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Ortland and J. E. Kim

  2:45 PM
Characterizing the higher-frequency variability within the MJO convective envelope
Stephanie Leroux, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and J. Dias, G. Kiladis, and S. N. Tulich

  3:00 PM
Leading modes of synoptic scale convective activity over the west Pacific warm pool
George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO

  3:15 PM
An object-approach to detect convectively coupled equatorial waves
Juliana Dias, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. N. Tulich and G. Kiladis

  3:30 PM
Cloud-resolving simulations of the ITCZ and tropical waves
Stefan N. Tulich, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and D. S. Nolan