Session 15B Tropical Large Scale Circulation and Intraseasonal Variability IV

Friday, 20 April 2012: 10:30 AM-12:45 PM
Champions AB (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

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

Chair:
George N. Kiladis, ESRL, Physical Sciences Division R/PSD1, Boulder, CO
Papers:
  10:30 AM
Oscillations in Ocean and Land Heating
Peter Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and V. Toma, H. M. Kim, and C. D. Hoyos

  10:45 AM
Inertial Instability Criterion over the Indian Ocean
Violeta Toma, Climate Forecast Applications Network, Reno, NV; and P. Webster

  11:00 AM
The Response of the effective static stability in the subtropics to MJO-induced tropical diabatic heating
Hyo Seok Park, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. Bordoni

  11:15 AM
Interactions Between Local Atmospheric Vertical Structures and the Madden-Julian Oscillation
James J. Benedict, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. H. Sobel, E. Maloney, D. Kim, and D. M. Frierson

  11:30 AM
Initiation and Multi-scale Interaction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Tim Li, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, HI; and P. C. Hsu and C. B. Zhao

  11:45 AM
Initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Multiscale Structure Viewpoint
Kazuyoshi Kikuchi, Department of Meteorology and IPRC, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

  12:00 PM
MJO initiation (or is it intensification?)
Katherine H. Straub, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA

  12:15 PM
An Indo-Pacific alternation of the boreal winter MJO
Hugo Bellenger, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentation et Approches Numériques, Paris, France; and J. P. Duvel