Session 2 |
| | Numerical modeling of planetary meteorology and climate dynamics |
| | Chair: Mark I. Richardson, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA
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| 4:00 PM | 2.1 | Striving towards simulating all known atmospheres equally well: vertical coordinate and pressure-gradient force
Timothy E. Dowling, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY |
| 4:15 PM | 2.2 | Simulation of Venus' general circulation
Christopher Lee, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA |
| 4:30 PM | 2.3 | Atmospheric circulations of terrestrial planets orbiting low mass stars
Adam R. Edson, ITT Visual Information Solutions, Springfield, VA; and S. Lee, P. R. Bannon, D. Pollard, and J. Kasting |
| 4:45 PM | 2.4 | Formation of zonal jets by large-scale latent heating on the giant planets
Adam P. Showman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and Y. Lian |
| 5:00 PM | 2.5 | Methane in Titan's weather and climate
Jonathan L. Mitchell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 5:15 PM | 2.6 | The dynamics and structure of Titan's middle atmosphere
F. Michael Flasar, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |