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Program Chairpersons:
Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.
Ralph C. Foster, APL/Univ. of Washington
William A. Perrie, Bedford Insitute of Oceanography

Compact View of Conference

Saturday, 10 January 2009
	7:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only
Sunday, 11 January 2009
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Annual Meeting Registration Begins
	12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A Weatherfest
	3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130 First-Time Attendee Briefing
	5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130 Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Hall 5 Fellows Reception
Monday, 12 January 2009
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Registration Open
	8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC Presidential Forum
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	10:55 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 128AB Session 1 Variability of the American Monsoon (VAMOS) Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS): Part 1. Overview
Chair: C. R. Mechoso, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
10:55 AM Welcoming Remarks   11:00 AM 1.1 The VOCALS Regional Experiment: Field activities and preliminary findings I   Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. R. Mechoso, C. S. Bretherton, R. A. Weller, B. A. Albrecht, P. Brown, H. Coe, P. H. Daum, C. W. Fairall, R. D. Garreaud, L. Gallardo, C. Grados, and G. Vaughan 11:30 AM 1.2 The VOCALS Regional Experiment: field activities and preliminary findings II   Hugh Coe, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; and R. Wood, C. R. Mechoso, C. Bretherton, R. A. Weller, P. H. Daum, and B. A. Albrecht
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Room 132A Tim Oke Symp Luncheon
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 128AB Session 2 Variability of the American Monsoon (VAMOS) Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS): Part 2. In Situ, Surface-Level Observations
Chair: C. R. Mechoso, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
1:30 PM 2.1 Surface Meteorology and Air-Sea Fluxes under the Stratus Clouds off Northern Chile   Robert A. Weller, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and C. W. Fairall 1:45 PM 2.2 Surface-layer and boundary-layer observations from the VOCALS-REX field program: Preliminary look at observations from the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown   Chris Fairall, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and D. E. Wolfe, S. Pezoa, S. P. De Szoeke, and S. E. Yuter 2:00 PM 2.3 Comparisons and contrasts of recent shipboard mean and covariance flux observations   Jeffrey Hare, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO; and A. Grachev, L. Bariteau, C. Fairall, D. Wolfe, and S. Pezoa 2:15 PM 2.4 Surface flux observations for coupled model evaluation in the VOCALS region   Simon P. de Szoeke, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Painemal, P. Zuidema, and C. W. Fairall
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5 Poster Session 1 POSTERS: Mesoscale and Regional-Scale Studies
P1.1 HiGEM: Small scale coupling of atmosphere and tropical instability waves in a high resolution coupled climate model   Len Shaffrey, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and J. Harle   P1.2 Determination of the vector wind stress response to small-scale SST variability   Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey, Monterey, CA; and D. Chelton   P1.3 Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions in the tropical Southeast Pacific Ocean   Dian A. Putrasahan, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and H. Seo, A. J. Miller, and J. Roads   P1.4 Buoy Observations from the Windiest Location in the World Ocean, Cape Farewell, Greenland   G.W.K. Moore, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. S. Pickart and I. A. Renfrew   P1.5 A comparison of aircraft-based surface-layer observations over Denmark Strait and the Irminger Sea with meteorological analyses and QuikSCAT winds   Ian A. Renfrew, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; and G. N. Petersen, D. A. J. Sproson, G. W. K. Moore, H. Adiwidjata, S. Zhang, and R. North   P1.6 Great Lakes wintertime mesovortices and the example of February 20, 2008   Frank S. Dempsey, Pickering, ON, Canada   P1.7 Preliminary look at boundary layer doppler wind lidar wind profiles from the Tropical Cyclone Structure, 2008 (TCS-08) experiment   Ralph C. Foster, APL/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. D. Emmitt, D. Carre, S. Greco, S. Wood, D. Eleutario, B. H. Tang, and M. Riemer   P1.8 Oceanic impacts on tropical cyclone intensity prediction using JMA high-resolution global atmospheric model   Hiroto Kitagawa, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan   P1.9 A Study of Ocean-Atmospheric Interactions and Associated Tropical Cyclone/Hurricane Activity over the Gulf of Mexico using Coupled Atmospheric Modeling System (CAMS)   R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and D. Lu and Q. L. Williams
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5 Poster Session 2 POSTERS: Satellite Observations of Air-Sea Interaction
P2.1 Remote sensing of high latitude open cell convection   Todd D. Sikora, Millersville University, Millersville, PA ; and G. S. Young, C. M. Fisher, and M. D. Stepp   P2.2 Wind speed and latent heat flux retrieved by simultaneous observation of multiple geophysical parameters derived by AMSR-E   Masanori Konda, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and H. Ichikawa and H. Tomita   P2.3 Low-level wind jets in the Tsugaru Strait by high-resolution satellite observations and numerical simulations   Teruhisa Shimada, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; and H. Kawamura and W. Sha
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 128AB Session 3 Variability of the American Monsoon (VAMOS) Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS): Part 3. Mesoscale Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Christopher W. Fairall, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO
4:00 PM 3.1 The PreVOCA model assessment   Matthew C. Wyant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Wood, C. R. Mechoso, and C. S. Bretherton 4:15 PM Clouds, continents, and the large scale circulation   Carlos R. Mechoso, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 4:30 PM 3.2 Mesoscale observations in the Peruvian upwelling region: preliminary results from the VOCALS Peru cruise   Carmen Grados, Instituto del Mar del Peru, IMARPE, Callao, Callao, Peru; and Y. Silva, A. Chaigneau, G. Eldin, L. Vasquez, P. Ayon, M. Graco, S. Sanchez, and J. Ledesma 4:45 PM 3.3 Observations of oceanic mesoscale eddies in the VOCALS region   Peter Gaube, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. Chelton 5:00 PM 3.4 HiGEM: High resolution global coupled climate modelling in the South East Pacific   Len Shaffrey, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and T. Toniazzo and J. Slingo 5:15 PM 3.5 Ocean surface heat budget and ocean eddy transport in the South-East Pacific in a high-resolution coupled model   Thomas Toniazzo, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and C. R. Mechoso, L. Shaffrey, and J. Slingo 5:30 PM 3.6 Inter-Hemispheric Influence of the Atlantic Warm Pool on the Southeast Pacific   Chunzai Wang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and S. K. Lee, C. R. Mechoso, and D. B. Enfield
	5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Sessions Adjourn for the Day
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4 Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 128A Session 4A Remote sensing applied to air-sea interaction
Chair: Ralph C. Foster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
8:30 AM 4A.1 The combined effect of surface rain and wind on scatterometer observations of surface roughness   David E. Weissman, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; and M. A. Bourassa 8:45 AM 4A.2 Interrelationship between surface wind, surface wind stress, and sea surface temperature   Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey, Monterey, CA; and D. Chelton and S. Esbensen 9:00 AM 4A.3 Airborne Doppler radar measurement of the sea surface and winds in hurricanes   S.J. Frasier, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and T. Chu, J. McManus, R. Contreras, P. S. Chang, and J. Carswell 9:15 AM 4A.4 Diurnally varying wind forcing and upper ocean temperature: Implications for the ocean mixed layer   Sarah T. Gille, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA 9:30 AM 4A.5 Role of nearshore winds in connecting variability of river discharge with offshore bio-optical properties   Steven L. Morey, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa and D. S. Dukhovskoy
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 128B Session 4B Basin-Scale Forcing of Synoptic Weather Patterns
Chair: Ian Renfrew, University of East Anglia
8:30 AM 4B.1 Synoptic scale changes in surface heat fluxes due to wind waves   Mark A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL 8:45 AM 4B.2 A general theory for the spatial and transient behavior of the South Pacific Convergence Zone   Matthew Widlansky, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; and P. J. Webster 9:00 AM 4B.3 Left-hand rule for synoptic eddy and Low-frequency flow Interaction   Jong-Seong Kug, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. F. Jin, H. Ren, and J. Park 9:15 AM 4B.4 Impact of midlatitude oceanic frontal zones on the atmospheric general circulation and its annular variability: Importance of "oceanic baroclinic adjustment"   Hisashi Nakamura, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Sampe, A. Goto, B. Taguchi, M. Nonaka, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, W. Ohfuchi, and S. P. Xie 9:30 AM 4B.5 On the relationship between the surface and 850mb storm tracks   James Booth, Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. Thompson, K. A. Kelly, J. Patoux, and S. Dickinson
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program)
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5 Poster Session 3 POSTERS: Large-Scale Studies
P3.3 has been moved. New paper number 10.1A     P3.1 The memory of tropical cyclones in climate   Robert E. Hart, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and R. N. Maue   P3.2 Low-frequency oscilllations in the atmosphere induced by a mid-latitude SST front   Michael Ghil, University of California, Los Angeles, CA   P3.4 Estimates of global oceanic meridional heat transports using surface energy balance method   Masahisa Kubota, Tokai University, Shizuoka, Japan; and E. Yagi, E. Yokotagawa, A. Kimura, Y. Tsuchiya, and T. Sasaki   P3.5 Weakness of the air-sea thermal coupling during Indian Ocean Dipole mode in the 1990s   Masanori Konda, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and H. Kobayashi, T. Mochizuki, and M. Nagura   P3.6 Potential contributions of Tropical Instability Waves in change of eastern equatorial Pacific's climate   Balachandrudu Narapusetty, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and B. P. Kirtman
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday Exhibits Open
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 128AB Joint Session 9 Satellite Observations of Air-Sea Interaction (Joint between the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Cochairs: Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; Ralph C. Foster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
11:00 AM J9.1 Representation of air-sea turbulent fluxes from varying satellite methodologies   Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 11:15 AM J9.2 Using neural networks to improve surface temperature and humidity prediction with satellite measurements   J. Brent Roberts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and F. R. Robertson 11:30 AM J9.3 Evaluation and comparison of satellite-derived estimates of the gas transfer velocity with direct observations from research vessels   Darren L. Jackson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Wick 11:45 AM J9.4 On the development of the eastern Pacific double ITCZ   Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 128A Session 6A Ocean-atmosphere interactions and influences on tropical and extratropical storms: Part 1
Chair: Ernesto Muñoz, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL
1:30 PM 6A.1 Climate Changes and Atlantic Hurricane Activity   Chunzai Wang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and S. K. Lee 2:00 PM 6A.2 The possible role of hurricanes in the climate system   Aixue Hu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Meehl 2:15 PM 6A.3 Spray-mediated enthalpy flux to the atmosphere and salt flux to the ocean in high winds   Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Lebanon, NH 2:30 PM 6A.4 Impact of a warm ocean eddy's circulation on hurricane-induced sea surface cooling with implications for hurricane intensity   Richard M. Yablonsky, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and I. Ginis 2:45 PM 6A.5 A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model for Tropical Cyclone Studies – Boundary Layer Interactions and the Response to Tropical Cyclone Passage   Henry R. Winterbottom, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and E. Chassignet
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Tuesday, Room 128B Session 6B Development and use of global air-sea data sets
Chair: Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1:30 PM 6B.1 Climate variability of air-sea heat, evaporation, and vector wind developed by OAFlux   Lisan Yu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 1:45 PM 6B.2 Sea surface fluxes and analysis: datasets and services at NCDC and WCRP   Huai-Min Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Reynolds, L. Shi, and C. W. Fairall 2:00 PM 6B.3 A Theoretical Framework for the Sampling Error Variance for Three Dimensional Climate Averages of ICOADS Monthly Ship Data   Mark L. Morrissey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene 2:15 PM 6B.4 CALIPSO Global Ocean Surface Roughness and Wind Speed Measurements and Potential Application   Yongxiang Hu, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin 2:30 PM 6B.5 Climate Variability as Identified in the New NOAA High Resolution SST Dataset   Michael A. Alexander, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and Y. O. Kwon and C. Frankignoul
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 128A Session 7A Ocean-atmosphere interactions and influences on tropical and extratropical storms: Part 2
Chair: William A. Perrie, Bedford Insitute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS Canada
3:30 PM 7A.1 New strategies for comprehensive coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean modeling in tropical cyclones   Isaac Ginis, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and Y. Fan, T. Hara, and Z. Yu 3:45 PM 7A.2 Comparisons of surface latent heat fluxes from numerical model simulations with those calculated from buoy observations   Donglian Sun, George Mason University, Fairfax, Viriginia 4:00 PM 7A.3 Spectra and cospectra of turbulence in the hurricane boundary layer over the ocean   Jun A. Zhang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and W. M. Drennan 4:15 PM 7A.4 Influence of an oceanic warm anomaly on the intensity of tropical cyclone Dora (2007) in the South West Indian Ocean   Guillaume Samson, Meteo-France/LACy, Sainte Clotilde, France; and D. Barbary, H. Giordani, G. Caniaux, and F. Roux 4:30 PM 7A.5 High-resolution numerical atmospheric and ocean simulations of Typhoon Maemi (September 2003)   Travis A. Smith, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS; and T. Campbell, R. Allard, J. Dykes, R. J. Small, and S. Riedlinger 4:45 PM 7A.6 Seasonal evolution of Aleutian Low-Pressure Systems: Implications for the North Pacific Ocean Sub-Polar Circulation   R. S. Pickart, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and G. W. K. Moore, A. Macdonald, I. A. Renfrew, J. E. Walsh, and W. S. Kessler
	3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday, Room 128B Session 7B High-latitude air-sea interaction
Chair: Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Lebanon, NH
3:30 PM 7B.1 Recently Intensified Arctic Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean Interaction and Accelerated Sea Ice Reduction   Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 3:45 PM 7B.2 Observed feedback between winter sea ice and the North Atlantic Oscillation   Gudrun Magnusdottir, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and C. Strong and H. Stern 4:00 PM 7B.3 Simulation of Arctic Storms   Zhenxia Long, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; and W. Perrie and L. Zhang 4:15 PM 7B.4 On the Nature of Upwelling Storms in the Western Arctic   R. S. Pickart, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and G. W. K. Moore 4:30 PM 7B.5 Impacts of Air-Sea Fluxes on the Evolution of an Arctic “Bomb”   Lujun Zhang, Nanjing University and Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and Z. Long 4:45 PM 7B.6 Aircraft observations of the atmospheric boundary layer over the Ronne Polynya, Southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica   Emma Fiedler, University of East Anglia, Norwich, , United Kingdom; and I. Renfrew, T. Lachlan Cope, and J. C. King 5:00 PM 7B.7 A new estimate of air-sea buoyancy fluxes over the Southern Ocean by state estimate   Ivana Cerovecki, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and L. Talley, M. Mazloff, and J. McClean
	5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Sessions Adjourn for the Day
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 128B Joint Session 8 Coastal Mesoscale Circulations-I (Joint between the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction and the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Chair: Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA
8:30 AM J8.1 Influence of SST on atmospheric trapping layers   Tracy Haack, NRL, Monterey, CA; and W. T. Thompson 8:45 AM J8.2 The contribution of dry surface air over land to the strength of radio frequency trapping layers in the sea breeze circulation   Robert E. Marshall, NSWCDD, Dahlgren, VA; and K. Horgan 9:00 AM J8.3 Study of sea-breeze interactions which can produce strong warm-season convective winds in the Cape Canaveral area   Christopher J. Ander, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH ; and A. J. Frumkin, J. P. Koermer, and W. P. Roeder 9:15 AM J8.4 The Ambrose Jet: Climatology and Simulations of Warm-Season Coastally Enhanced Winds in the New York Bight Region   David R. Novak, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD; and B. A. Colle 9:30 AM J8.5 The coastal oscillation   John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and A. McNeel 9:45 AM J8.6 The Evolution of a Convective Squall Line as it Crossed the Upwind Coast of Lake Erie   Thomas E. Workoff, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Wednesday, Room 128A Session 8 Sea-Surface Physics, Including Waves, Whitecaps, and Aerosol Generation: Part 1
Chair: William A. Perrie, Bedford Insitute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS Canada
8:30 AM 8.1 Validation of satellite-based estimates of whitecap coverage: Approaches and initial results   Magdalena D. Anguelova, NRL, Washington, DC ; and J. P. Bobak, W. E. Asher, D. J. Dowgiallo, B. I. Moat, R. W. Pascal, and M. J. Yelland 8:45 AM 8.2 Effects of Bubbles and Sea Spray on Drag Coefficient in Hurricane Conditions   Alexander V. Soloviev, Nova Southeastern Univ., Dania Beach, FL; and R. Lukas 9:00 AM 8.3 Impact of sea spray on air-sea fluxes: a physical model   James A. Mueller, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and F. Veron 9:15 AM 8.4 Evaluation and improvement of spray-modified air-sea enthalpy and momentum flux parameterizations for operational purricane prediction   J.-W. Bao, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and C. Fairall, S. A. Michelson, and L. Bianco 9:30 AM 8.5 Sea State dependent air-sea gas flux parameterization   Zachary VanKirk, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. Mueller and F. Veron
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 128B Joint Session 10 Coastal Mesoscale Circulations-II (Joint between the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction and the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Chair: Todd D. Sikora, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
10:30 AM J10.1 Ocean mixed Layer Response to Gap Wind Scenarios   Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; and N. Konstantinou, R. W. Garwood, S. Wang, K. Rados, J. Kalogiros, W. K. Melville, D. Khelif, and C. A. Friehe 10:45 AM J10.2 The role of major west coast capes in coastal summer high speed wind structure   Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and B. A. Vanhoff and D. Koracin 11:00 AM J10.3 A case study of a Greenland Lee Cyclogenesis Event and the Subsequent Spawning of a Tip Jet   Carling Hay, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore and R. S. Pickart 11:15 AM J10.4 A Climatology of Cold Air Outbreaks over the Gulf of Mexico   Charlene Forgue, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson 11:30 AM J10.5 Modeling of Cold-Air Outbreaks and Return Flow Over the Gulf of Mexico   Donald F. Van Dyke III, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and E. Chassignet 11:45 AM J10.6 Coastal mesoscale circulations induced by the interaction among the northeast winter monsoon, Kuroshio Current and mountains of Taiwan   Wu-ron Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and J. H. Tai
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 128A Session 9 Sea-Surface Physics, Including Waves, Whitecaps, and Aerosol Generation: Part 2
Chair: Magdalena D. Anguelova, NRL, Washington, DC
10:30 AM 9.1 A Two-Scale Approximation for Nonlinear Energy Transfers in Wave Spectra   Will Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and D. T. Resio 10:45 AM 9.2 The impact of atmospheric model resolution on a coupled wind/wave forecast system   Katherine Howard, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and G. Zarillo, M. Splitt, S. Lazarus, S. Chiao, P. Santos, and D. Sharp 11:00 AM 9.3 Numerical simulations and observations of surface wave fields under an extreme tropical cyclone   Yalin Fan, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and I. Ginis 11:15 AM 9.4 The contribution of wave breaking to air-sea interaction   J.M. Kleiss, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and W. K. Melville 11:30 AM 9.5 Numerical simulations of wind-wave spectra in the Gulf of Tehuantepec   Leonel Romero, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and W. K. Melville 11:45 AM 9.6 Speed factors and deflection angles of wind-driven flows at the sea surface   Yutaka Yoshikawa, RIAM, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan; and A. Masuda
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Wednesday Exhibits Open
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 128AB Session 10 Turbulent Air-Sea Flux Measurements from Aircraft
Chair: Larry Mahrt, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
10.1 Air-sea interaction in the Gulf of Tehuantepec   Carl A. Friehe, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and D. Khelif and W. K. Melville 1:30 PM 10.1A The implementation of a prognostic sea surface skin temperature scheme into climate and weather models   Michael A. Brunke, Univ.of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng, V. Misra, and A. Beljaars 1:45 PM 10.2 Direct measurements of momentum and enthalpy fluxes in the hurricane force wind regime   Jun A. Zhang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and W. M. Drennan, J. R. French, and P. Black 2:00 PM 10.3 Aircraft-based observations of air-sea fluxes over Denmark Strait and the Irminger Sea during high wind speed conditions   G. N. Petersen, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; and I. A. Renfrew 2:15 PM 10.4 Air-sea interaction measurements from a new towed airborne platform   Djamal Khelif, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA; and C. A. Friehe, R. Bluth, J. Barge, T. Morse, and D. Bierly
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5 Poster Session 4 POSTERS: Small-Scale Studies
P4.1 A synoptic description of surface currents and winds at the Delaware Bay mouth   Philip A. Muscarella, College of Marine and Earth Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and N. P. Barton, B. L. Lipphardt, Jr., D. E. Veron, K. C. Wong, and A. D. Kirwan, Jr.   P4.2 Satellite and in situ observations of marine boundary layer adjustment to an unstable-to-stable stratification transition   Ralph C. Foster, APL/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Vandemark, H. Stern, L. Mahrt, D. Vickers, W. M. Drennan, D. G. Long, P. Vachon, and P. Mourad   P4.3 Forecast Challenges and Lessons from the 2008 Saint Patrick's Day Super Swell   Mark Willis, NOAA/NWS, Newport, NC; and K. Korte and J. Elardo   P4.5 Oceanic whitecap coverage measured during UK-SOLAS cruises   Ben I. Moat, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; and M. J. Yelland and R. W. Pascal P4.4 The Development of a Coastal Flood Nomogram for South Coastal Maine and the Seacoast of New Hampshire   John W. Cannon, NOAA/NWS, Gray, Maine; and P. Bogden, R. R. Morse, I. S. Ogilvie, and T. A. Shyka   P4.6 The lake-atmosphere turbulent exchanges (LATEX) field measurement campaign   Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and N. Vercauteren, U. Lemmin, H. Huwald, and M. B. Parlange   P4.7 High Wind Air-Sea Exchanges (HiWASE) - initial turbulent flux results from Station Mike   John Prytherch, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; and M. J. Yelland, R. W. Pascal, P. Taylor, B. I. Moat, I. Skjelvan, and C. Neill   P4.8 Ship-borne Ozone Flux Measurements during GasExIII 2008   Ludovic Bariteau, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA ESRL, Boulder, Colorado; and E. K. Lang, D. Helmig, C. W. Fairall, J. E. Hare, L. Ganzveld, and J. Hueber
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 128A Session 11A Air-Sea Interaction Over Eddies and Fronts (contributions from the Western Boundary Current Working Group)
Cochairs: Michael A. Alexander, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; R. Justin Small, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS
4:00 PM 11A.1 Ocean-atmosphere Coupling over Mid-latitude Ocean Fronts   W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie and P. P. Niiler 4:15 PM 11A.2 Atmospheric response to the SST front associated with the Agulhas Return Current   Qingtao Song, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. Chelton and S. Esbensen 4:30 PM 11A.3 Air-sea interactions in the Gulf Stream region from long-term in-situ observations   Sebastien P. Bigorre, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and R. A. Weller 4:45 PM 11A.4 Air-sea heat exchanges characteristic to a prominent midlatitude oceanic front in the South Indian Ocean as simulated in a high-resolution coupled GCM   Masami Nonaka, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; and H. Nakamura, B. Taguchi, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, and K. Takaya 5:00 PM 11A.5 Damping of Tropical Instability Waves caused by the action of surface currents on stress   R. Justin Small, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS; and K. Richards, S. P. Xie, P. Dutrieux, and T. Miyama 5:15 PM 11A.6 Mesoscale air-sea interaction and feedback in the western Arabian Sea   Hyodae Seo, IPRC/Univ. Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Murtugudde, M. Jochum, and A. J. Miller
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 128B Session 11B In situ turbulent air-sea flux measurements, including gas exchange
Chair: Jeffrey E. Hare, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, Colorado
4:00 PM 11B.1 Parameterization of gas exchange from the southern ocean gas exchange experiment   Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT; and C. J. Zappa, L. Bariteau, J. B. Edson, W. McGillis, and C. W. Fairall 4:15 PM 11B.2 Direct measurements of momentum and latent heat transfer coefficients during the GasExIII 2008 field program in the Southern Ocean: Comparisons with the COARE3.0 bulk flux algorithm   Chris Fairall, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and L. Bariteau, J. E. Hare, S. Pezoa, J. B. Edson, A. Cifuentes-Lorenzen, W. McGillis, and C. J. Zappa 4:30 PM 11B.3 Influence of Waves, Whitecaps, and Turbulence on Gas Transfer during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment   Christopher J. Zappa, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and A. Cifuentes-Lorenzen, W. R. McGillis, J. B. Edson, L. Bariteau, and C. W. Fairall 4:45 PM 11B.4 Wind stress under the presence of swell in moderate to strong wind conditions   Hector Garcia-Nava, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico; and F. J. Ocampo-Torres, B. K. Haus, and I. Savelyev 5:00 PM 11B.5 Turbulent transfer and mixing of trace gases in the Houston urban area and the surrounding coastal zone of Gulf of Mexico during TexAQS 2006   Andrey A. Grachev, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. Bariteau, C. W. Fairall, J. Hare, D. Helmig, J. Hueber, and E. K. Lang 5:15 PM 11B.6 Mesoscale variability of sea-surface fluxes   Larry Mahrt, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. Khelif and C. A. Friehe
	5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions Adjourn for the Day
	5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4 Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 15 January 2009
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Room 128A Session 12A Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 1
Chair: Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM 12A.1 Ocean-atmosphere coupling on different temporal and spatial scales   Lei Zhou, ESSIC/AOSC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Murtugudde 8:45 AM 12A.2 Air-sea heat fluxes and the dynamics of intraseasonal variability   Adam H. Sobel, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, and Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia Univ., new York, NY; and E. D. Maloney, G. Bellon, and D. M. W. Frierson 9:00 AM 12A.3 Dynamics associated with simulated northward propagation of monsoon convection in the SNU CGCM   Daehyun Kim, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and I. S. Kang 9:15 AM 12A.4 An assessment of the Forecast Capability for BSISO by the NCEP Operational Global Forecast Systems   Mingyue Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wang and A. Kumar 9:30 AM 12A.5 External influences on the variability of the monsoon   Sara Vieira, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Room 128B Session 12B Laboratory studies of air-sea exchange processes
Chair: Andrey Grachev, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, Colorado
8:30 AM 12B.1 Quantifying rain-induced momentum exchange at the ocean surface   Emily L. Harrison, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE; and M. Buckley and F. Veron 8:45 AM 12B.2 Curvature Imaging of Breaking Wind-wave Characteristics in the Laboratory   Brian K. Haus, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and T. Hara 9:00 AM 12B.3 Airflow separation above wind waves   Marc Buckley, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. Mueller and F. Veron 9:15 AM 12B.4 Empirical parameterization for wind-wave momentum flux in high winds   Ivan Savelyev, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. Haus and M. Donelan 9:30 AM 12B.5 Laboratory Measurements of the Moist Enthalpy Transfer Coeffcient   Dahai Jeong, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. K. Haus, M. A. Donelan, and J. Zhang
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Wednesday's program)
	11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday Exhibits Open
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 128A Session 13 Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 2
Chair: Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO
11:00 AM 13.1 Indian Ocean capacitor effect: El Nino's long grip on the Asian-western Pacific summer monsoon   Shang-Ping Xie, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Du, Y. Du, J. Hafner, J. Hafner, H. Tokinaga, K. Hu, T. Sampe, G. Huang, H. Tokinaga, and T. Sampe 11:15 AM 13.2 Coupled air-sea interactions in the Western Pacific and large-scale climate variability   Ben P. Kirtman, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL 11:30 AM 13.3 The impact of the mean state on the ENSO simulation and prediction   Xiaohua Pan, George Mason Univ./COLA, Beltsville, MD; and J. Shukla and B. Huang 11:45 AM 13.4 Mean state and SST variability of the South-Eastern Pacific: a model study   Thomas Toniazzo, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom 12:00 PM 13.5 Seasonal Cycle-ENSO Interactions: Validation of Hypotheses   Heng Xiao, Dept. of Atmos. and Oceanic Sci., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, Room 131AB Hollingsworth Symp Luncheon
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Room 128AB Session 14 Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 3
Chair: Simon P. De Szoeke, NOAA/ESRL/PSD3, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 14.1 SST sensitivity of a global ocean-atmosphere coupled system to the parameterization of boundary layer clouds   Joao Teixeira, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and P. May, M. K. Flatau, and T. F. Hogan 1:45 PM 14.2 The Intra-Americas Sea springtime temperature dipole as fingerprint of remote influences   Ernesto Muñoz, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and C. Wang and D. B. Enfield 2:00 PM 14.3 Free and forced variability of the tropical Atlantic Ocean: Role of the wind-evaporation-sea surface temperature (WES) Feedback   Salil Mahajan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Saravanan and P. Chang 2:15 PM 14.4 Observed Impact of Subtropical-Midlatitude South Atlantic SST Anomalies on the Atmospheric Circulation   Qigang Wu, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 2:30 PM 14.5 Modeling Atlantic tropical instability waves using a coupled regional climate model   Jen-Shan Hsieh, Department of Atmospheric science, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX; and C. Wen, P. Chang, and R. Saravanan 2:45 PM 14.6 High-resolution simulations of air-sea interaction in the Mediterranean Sea   Richard Justin Orford Small, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and T. A. Smith, T. Campbell, R. Allard, J. Dykes, and J. Teixeira
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Hall 4 Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Room 128AB Session 15 Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 4
Chair: Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Lebanon, NH
3:30 PM 15.1 Low-frequency variability in a mid-latitude coupled model: Gulf Stream influence on the tropospheric jet   Michael Ghil, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Feliks and E. Simonnet 3:45 PM 15.2 An enhancement of a coupled mode of variability in CCSM3 in the North Pacific owing to ocean model biases   LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and Y. O. Kwon 4:00 PM 15.3 The role of Rossby wave breaking in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation   Courtenay Strong, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir 4:15 PM 15.4 Rethinking the Impacts of Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling   Sang-Ik Shin, U. of Colorado/CIRES/Climate Diagnostics Center and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh 4:30 PM 15.5 Modelling the impact of polar mesoscale cyclones on ocean circulation   Alan Condron, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, ; and G. Bigg and I. A. Renfrew 4:45 PM 15.6 Atmospheric conditions associated with oceanic convection in the south-east Labrador Sea   D.a.J. Sproson, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; and I. Renfrew and K. Heywood 5:00 PM Announce winners for best student papers   5:05 PM Concluding remarks
	5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns

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