Session 14D Tropical Large Scale Circulation and Intraseasonal Variability III

Friday, 20 April 2012: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Masters E (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

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

Chair:
Eric Maloney, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
Papers:
  8:00 AM
Ocean-atmosphere interaction key aspect of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Wan-Ling Tseng, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Taipei, Taiwan; and B. J. Tsuang, N. Keenlyside, H. H. Hsu, and C. Y. Tu

  8:15 AM
An event-by-event assessment of tropical intraseasonal perturbations for general circulation models
Jean Philippe Duvel, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Paris, France; and H. Bellenger, G. Bellon, and M. Remaud

  9:00 AM
On the Relative Roles of Circumnavigating Waves and Extratropics on the MJO
Pallav Ray, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and T. Li

  9:15 AM
**Local Versus Remote Controls of East Pacific Intraseasonal Variability**
Adam V. Rydbeck, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and E. Maloney

  9:30 AM
The Role of South American Convective Cycles on Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations
Fernando Hirata, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster