16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere

Program Chair: Jessica L. Neu , JPL

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Saturday, 22 January 2011

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 22 January 2011


Registration for Student Conference and Short Course

Sunday, 23 January 2011

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


Registration open for Annual Meeting

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


WeatherFest

6:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


Welcome Reception Honoring Newly Elected Fellows
Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center)

Monday, 24 January 2011

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Registration continues through January 27

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Weather Video Preview Theater
Location: 303 (Washington State Convention Center)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Recording files available
Plenary Session
Presidential Forum: Communicating Weather and Climate
Location: 6AB (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges; the Fourth Annual CCM Forum; the Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Michio Yanai Symposium; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Symposium on Education; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the Ninth History Symposium; the 8th Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Second Symposium on Environment and Health; the More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones; the Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology; the IMPACTS: Weather 2010; and the 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International )

Panel Discussion
Communicating Weather and Climate
Location: 6AB (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Presidential Forum: Communicating Weather and Climate; the More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones; the Michio Yanai Symposium; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Symposium on Education; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the Ninth History Symposium; the 8th Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Fourth Annual CCM Forum; the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Second Symposium on Environment and Health; the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges; the Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology; and the IMPACTS: Weather 2010 )
Panelists: Thomas E. Skilling, WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune; Claire Martin, CBC News: Weather Centre; Doyle Rice, USA Today; Martin Storksdieck, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council
Moderator: Robert T. Ryan, NBC4 TV
9:00 AM
Panelist: Thomas E. Skilling
Thomas E. Skilling, WGN-TV, Chicago, IL

9:10 AM
Panelist: Claire Martin
Claire Martin, CBC News: Weather Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada

9:20 AM
Panelist: Doyle Rice
Doyle Rice, USA Today, Washington, DC

9:30 AM
Panelist: Martin Storksdieck
Martin Storksdieck, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council, Washington, DC

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Spouses' Coffee

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Stratosphere and Climate I
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Chair: Jessica L. Neu, JPL
11:30 AM
J1.2
Stratospheric temperature trends: History of our evolving understanding
Dian J. Seidel, NOAA, College Park, MD; and N. P. Gillett, J. Lanzante, K. P. Shine, and P. Thorne
11:45 AM
J1.3
Could stratospheric water vapor anomalies influence regional climate?
Amanda C. Maycock, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and M. M. Joshi, A. A. Scaife, and K. P. Shine

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

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Joint Session 2
Stratosphere and Climate II: Response to Surface Forcing
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Chair: Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates
1:30 PM
J2.1
1:45 PM
J2.2
El Nino-Southern Oscillation and stratospheric sudden warmings: a re-evaluation
Amy Hawes Butler, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD; and L. M. Polvani
2:00 PM
J2.3
The impact of surface temperature variability on the climate change response in the NH polar vortex
Barbara Winter, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and M. S. Bourqui

Handout (1.1 MB)

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Poster Session 1
Observations of the Middle Atmosphere
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
195
Evaluation of NOAA's Stratospheric Sounding Unit Climate Data Record
Craig S. Long, NOAA, College Park, MD; and R. Lin, L. Wang, and C. Z. Zou

196
Methyl Chloride from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder: Preliminary validation and climatology
Michelle L. Santee, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and N. J. Livesey, A. Lambert, W. G. Read, and G. L. Manney

198
Diurnal variations of stratospheric/mesospheric trace species, ClO, BrO, and HO2 derived from 4K cooled submm limb sounder ISS/JEM/SMILES
Makoto Suzuki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan; and C. Mitsuda, C. Takahashi, N. Manago, Y. Iwata, T. Sano, K. Kikuchi, S. Mizobuchi, T. Nishibori, K. Imai, H. Hayashi, E. Nishimoto, Y. Naito, and M. Shiotani
Manuscript (1.2 MB)

Handout (8.1 MB)

344
Annual cycle of total ozone in the latitudinal belt from 20°N to 60°N
Peter Krizan, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic; and J. Miksovsky, M. Kozubek, W. Gengchen, and B. Jianhui


Joint Poster Session 1
Stratospheric Climate and Coupling Between the Stratosphere and Troposphere
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
191
Quality of reanalysis data during stratospheric vortex weakening and intensification events
Patrick Martineau, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and S. W. Son

Handout (1.2 MB)

192
Predictability of stratospheric warming in an idealized model
Lantao Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson and G. Chen

Handout (1.6 MB)

194
A model study of the impact of source gas changes on the stratosphere for 1850–2100
Eric L. Fleming, SSAI and GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. H. Jackman

Handout (233.8 kB)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

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Joint Session 6
Stratosphere and Climate: Stratospheric Influence on Surface Climate
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Chair: Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
4:00 PM
J6.1
Understanding the linkages between stratospheric variability and surface climate
David W. J. Thompson, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and T. Birner

4:15 PM
J6.2
Stratospheric ozone depletion: the main driver of 20th century atmospheric circulation changes in the Southern Hemisphere?
Lorenzo M. Polvani, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and D. Waugh, G. J. P. Correa, and S. W. Son
4:30 PM
J6.3
Separating the effects of ozone depletion/recovery and climate change on the dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere and troposphere
Charles McLandress, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and A. Jonsson, D. Plummer, C. Reader, J. Scinocca, M. Sigmond, and T. G. Shepherd
4:45 PM
J6.4
Impact of late-20th century ozone changes in an atmosphere-only model and a slab ocean model
Paul J. Young, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Davis, S. Solomon, B. Hassler, and G. Bodeker
5:00 PM
J6.5
5:15 PM
J6.6
How will stratospheric effects on climate change during the 21st century?
Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates, Redmond, WA

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Reception and Exhibits Opening

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate Art Show

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Weather Video Preview Theater
Location: 303 (Washington State Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Recording files available
Session 1
Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling I
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Amy Hawes Butler, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
8:30 AM
1.1A
The Tropospheric Response to Stratospheric Quasi-Bienniel Oscillation during Boreal Summer
Seok-woo Son, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and H. S. Kim, H. Lin, and C. H. Ho

8:45 AM
1.1
What controls the overturning circulation of the stratosphere?
Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and C. Chan and K. E. Sielert
9:15 AM
1.3
Stratosphere—Troposphere Coupling by Planetary Waves
Daniela I.V. Domeisen, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; and R. A. Plumb
9:30 AM
1.4
Downward wave coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere: The importance of meridional wave guiding and comparison with zonal-mean coupling
Tiffany A. Shaw, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science/Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and J. Perlwitz and N. Harnik

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Spouses' Coffee

9:30 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Exhibit Hours

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture
Recording files available
Joint Session 7
Observations of Middle Atmosphere Composition
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Chair: Michelle L. Santee, JPL
11:00 AM
J7.1
Discovery of an orange FeO feature in the night airglow spectrum with the OSIRIS spectrograph on Odin
W.F.J. Evans, North West Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and R. L. Gattinger, D. A. Degenstein, E. J. Lewellyn, and T. G. Slanger
11:15 AM
J7.2
Evaluation of the NOAA Cohesive SBUV(/2) Profile Ozone Data Set
Jeannette Wild, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC and U. Maryland/CISESS/ESSIC, College Park, MD; and C. S. Long, A. H. Butler, S. K. Yang, S. Zhou, and R. Lin
11:30 AM
J7.3
Global distribution of minor constituents observed by SMILES and its dynamical background
Yoko Naito, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan; and N. Nishi, E. Nishimoto, M. Suzuki, C. Mitsuda, C. Takahashi, K. Imai, N. Manago, H. Hayashi, T. Sano, and M. Shiotani
11:45 AM
J7.4
The first, long-term, in situ measurement of ozone depletion in the Antarctic ozone hole
Lars E. Kalnajs, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. M. Avallone, T. Deshler, and P. Cocquerez

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 2
Understanding and Predicting Changes in Stratospheric Ozone: The Chemistry-Climate Model Validation Report
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Andrew Gettelman, NCAR
1:30 PM
2.1
Overview of Chemistry-Climate Model Validation (CCMVal) project
Darryn W. Waugh, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and V. Eyring and T. G. Shepherd
2:15 PM
2.3
Using transport diagnostics to understand chemistry climate model ozone simulations
Susan E. Strahan, Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass and R. S. Stolarski
2:45 PM
2.5
Steps toward a quantitative explanation of differences in Chemistry Climate Model predictions of future ozone evolution
Anne R. Douglass, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. E. Strahan, L. Oman, and R. S. Stolarski

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: 601 (Washington State Convention Center)

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Recording files available
Session 3
Understanding and Predicting Changes in Stratospheric Ozone
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Paul A. Newman, NASA/GSFC
3:30 PM
3.1
Ozone layer science and its assessments
A. R. Ravishankara, NOAA/ESRL/CSD, Boulder, CO

4:00 PM
3.2
Attribution of observed changes in stratospheric ozone and temperature
Nathan P. Gillett, EC, Victoria, BC, Canada; and H. Akiyoshi, S. Bekki, V. Eyring, R. Garcia, C. McLinden, A. Y. Karpechko, D. A. Plummer, E. Rozanov, J. F. Scinocca, and K. Shibata
4:15 PM
3.3

4:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 4
Stratospheric Circulation Trends
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Natalia Calvo, NCAR
4:30 PM
4.1
Strengthening of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation since 1980
Qiang Fu, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. Lin, S. Solomon, and D. Hartmann

4:45 PM
4.2
5:00 PM
4.3
Long-Term Changes in Stratospheric Age Spectra in the 21st Century in GEOSCCM
Feng Li, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass, S. Pawson, D. Waugh, P. A. Newman, S. E. Strahan, and J. E. Nielsen
5:15 PM
4.4

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Weather Video Preview Theater
Location: 303 (Washington State Convention Center)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 5
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: G.L. Manney, NorthWest Research Associates/New Mexico Tech Univ.
8:30 AM
5.1
9:00 AM
5.2
Structure of the UTLS in GEOS-5
Steven Pawson, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
9:15 AM
5.3
Numerical experiments on extratropical tropopause inversion layer using a mesoscale model
Shigeo Yoden, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and S. Otsuka and M. Takeshita
9:30 AM
5.4
Chemical tracers as indicators of transport time scales and source regions of air in the UTLS
Eric A. Ray, NOAA/ESRL/CSD, Boulder, CO; and F. Moore and K. H. Rosenlof
9:45 AM
5.5

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Spouses' Coffee

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Coffee Break

Meet the President

10:00 AM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Exhibit Hours

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 6
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere: Tropical Tropopause Layer
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Kevin M. Grise, Univ. of Virginia
10:30 AM
6.1
Boundaries of the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) identified by the ozone-water vapor relationship
Laura L. Pan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Munchak, H. Voemel, J. Bian, and H. B. Selkirk

10:45 AM
6.2
11:00 AM
6.3
Radiative impacts of clouds in the tropical tropopause layer
Qiong Yang, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and Q. Fu and Y. Hu
11:30 AM
6.5
A model study on the influence of overshooting convection on TTL water vapor
Muhammad E. Hassim, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and T. P. Lane
11:45 AM
6.6
The Advection-Condensation Paradigm for Stratospheric Water Vapour
Yu Sue Liu, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom; and S. Fueglistaler and P. H. Haynes

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 7
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere: Field Campaigns
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Eric A. Ray, NOAA/ESRL/CSD
1:30 PM
7.1
START08/satellite data comparisons and large-scale context for START08 from MLS and ACE-FTS satellite data
G.L. Manney, NorthWest Research Associates and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and M. I. Hegglin, W. Daffer, R. Fuller, E. Atlas, L. Pan, S. C. Wofsy, T. Campos, D. Hurst, M. Schwartz, M. L. Santee, and J. R. Walker

1:45 PM
7.2 has been moved to 7.3A

2:15 PM
7.2A
Dynamical and chemical characteristics of tropospheric intrusions observed during START08
Cameron R. Homeyer, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. P. Bowman, L. Pan, E. Atlas, R. S. Gao, and T. L. Campos

2:30 PM
7.3 has been moved to 7.2A

2:45 PM
7.4
Simultaneous water vapor and ozone lidar observations of a stratospheric intrusion during the MOHAVE-2009 campaign
Thierry Leblanc, California Institute of Technology, Wrightwood, CA; and I. S. McDermid and A. Hauchecorne

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Poster Session 2
Data Assimilation and Reanalyses
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
519
NOGAPS-ALPHA assimilation of middle atmospheric water vapor from Aura MLS measurements 2005–2009
J. P. McCormack, NRL, Washington, DC; and F. Sassi, K. W. Hoppel, and G. E. Nedoluha

520
Ensemble assimilation of stratospheric temperature and ozone observations in a chemistry-climate model
Thomas Milewski, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and M. S. Bourqui

Handout (126.7 kB)

522
Stratospheric Characteristics of the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
Craig S. Long, NOAA, College Park, MD; and A. H. Butler, S. Zhou, S. K. Yang, R. Lin, and J. Wild


Poster Session 3
Dynamics and Transport
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
523
Radiative-Photochemical Damping of Equatorial Waves in the Middle Atmosphere
Dustin Grogan, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and T. Nathan, E. Cordero, and R. Echols

525
The temperature response to stratospheric water vapor changes
Amanda C. Maycock, Univ. of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and M. M. Joshi and K. P. Shine

Handout (2.2 MB)

526
Effect of energetic particle precipitation on the atmosphere as simulated by WACCM
Ethan D. Peck, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and C. E. Randall, X. Fang, D. R. Marsh, V. L. Harvey, and M. Mills

527
Life-cycle of the ‘frozen-in anticyclone' in the 2005 Arctic summer stratosphere
Douglas R. Allen, NRL, Washington, DC; and G. L. Manney and A. R. Douglass

Handout (2.0 MB)

528
The role of transient tropospheric forcing in stochastic low-order models of sudden stratospheric warmings
Jeremiah P. Sjoberg, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. Birner


Poster Session 4
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
529
Diagnosis of tropical cyclone activity in the UT/LS through gravity wave energy density in the South West Indian Ocean
Chouaïbou Ibrahim, Laboratoire de l'atmosphere et des cyclones, Saint Denis, Reunion

531
Validation of a new operational package for the Lagrangian diagnosis of stratosphere-troposphere exchange at Environment Canada
Michel S. Bourqui, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and A. Yamamoto, D. W. Tarasick, M. Moran, L. P. Beaudoin, I. Beres, J. Davies, A. Elford, C. Guertin, M. Osman, R. Wilkinson, W. Hocking, and P. S. Argall

Handout (4.7 MB)

532
533
Cloud-top height variability associated with equatorial Kelvin waves in the tropical tropopause layer during the Mirai Indian Ocean cruise for the Study of the MJO-convection Onset (MISMO) campaign
Junko Suzuki, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kanagawa, Japan; and M. Fujiwara, A. Hamada, and R. Shirooka

534
535
Effects of all-sky heating rates, nucleation mechanisms, convection, and waves on water vapor at the tropical tropopause
Leonhard Pfister, NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA; and E. Jensen

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 8
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere: Dynamics and Transport
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Cameron R. Homeyer, NCAR
4:15 PM
8.2
The annual cycle in lower stratospheric temperatures revisited
Stephan Fueglistaler, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and P. H. Haynes and P. M. D. F. Forster

4:30 PM
8.3
Shear-flow turbulent mixing in the tropical tropopause layer
Thomas Flannaghan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. Fueglistaler

4:45 PM
8.4
5:00 PM
8.5
Mixing between the troposphere and lowermost stratosphere indicated by HIRDLS measurements of isentropic tracer-tracer correlations
John C. Gille, Univ. of Colorado/NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Karol, L. Smith, D. E. Kinnison, V. Yudin, and B. Nardi

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


91st AMS Awards Banquet
Location: 6ABCD (Washington State Convention Center)

Thursday, 27 January 2011

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Michio Yanai Symposium

Weather Video Preview Theater
Location: 303 (Washington State Convention Center)

8:45 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

Recording files available
Session 9
Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling II
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Daniela I.V. Domeisen, University of Hamburg
8:45 AM
9.1
Connection between Antarctic ozone depletion and tropospheric Rossby wave breaking and cut-off lows
Thando Ndarana, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Maryland; and D. Waugh, L. Polvani, G. J. P. Correa, and E. P. Gerber
9:00 AM
9.2
Downward influence of stratospheric final warming events in an idealized model
Lantao Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson and G. Chen
9:15 AM
9.3
Sources of Annular Mode timescales
Paul J. Kushner, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and L. R. Mudryk
9:30 AM
9.5
9.4 has been moved. New paper number 1.1A

9:30 AM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Exhibit Hours

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Session 10
Dynamics: ENSO, QBO, and the Response to Surface Forcing
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Feng Li, USRA
11:00 AM
10.1
The response of the tropical lower stratosphere to ENSO
Isla R. Simpson, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and T. G. Shepherd and M. Sigmond
11:15 AM
10.2
Influence of ENSO and QBO on the frequency of sudden stratospheric warmings
Jadwiga H. Richter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Matthes, N. Calvo, and L. J. Gray
11:30 AM
10.3
QBO Influence on Polar Stratospheric Variability in the GEOS Chemistry-Climate Model
Margaret M. Hurwitz, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Oman, F. Li, I. S. Song, P. A. Newman, and J. E. Nielsen

11:45 AM
10.4
Mechanisms for the atmospheric circulation response to idealized thermal forcings in a simple GCM
Amy Hawes Butler, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD; and D. W. J. Thompson
12:00 PM
10.5
Sensitivity of the stratospheric circulation to the latitude of thermal surface forcing
Barbara Winter, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and M. S. Bourqui

Handout (1.1 MB)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Lunch Break

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Session
Presidential Town Hall Meeting
Location: 6A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; the Events; the 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the Michio Yanai Symposium; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Symposium on Education; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the Ninth History Symposium; the 8th Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Fourth Annual CCM Forum; the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Second Symposium on Environment and Health; the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges; the Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones; and the Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology )
12:15 PM
Ensuring Integrity in the Doing and Using of Science
Ralph Cicerone, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Michio Yanai Symposium Luncheon
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

Recording files available
Session 11
Dynamics and Transport: Potpourri
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Jadwiga H. Richter, NCAR
1:30 PM
11.1
The Holton and Tan relationship in a 150-year simulation with WACCM4
Natalia Calvo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. R. Marsh

1:45 PM
11.2
Stratospheric response to 11-year solar forcing: Observations and Model Comparisons
Lon L. Hood, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. Soukharev, J. Arblaster, and K. Matthes

2:00 PM
11.3
Seasonally coherent recoveries from stratospheric sudden warmings
Peter Hitchcock, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd
2:15 PM
11.4
The stratospheric circulation in a high-top and low-top version of the Met Office climate model
Steven C. Hardiman, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and N. Butchart, L. J. Gray, T. J. Hinton, S. M. Osprey, C. Bell, C. Johnson, and W. Seviour
2:30 PM
11.5
Variability of Irreversible Poleward Transport in the Lower Stratosphere
Mark A. Olsen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass, P. A. Newman, E. R. Nash, J. C. Witte, and J. Ziemke
2:45 PM
11.6
Descent of Water Vapor from the Arctic Vortex to the Lowermost Stratosphere
G. Nedoluha, NRL, Washington, DC; and J. P. McCormack, K. W. Hoppel, E. M. Dahlburg, A. J. Kochenash, and A. Lambert

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Registration Closes

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Coffee Break

Meet the President

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

Recording files available
Session 12
Dynamics and Transport: Waves
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Tiffany A. Shaw, University of Toronto
3:30 PM
12.1
The stratospheric index-of-refraction for planetary wave propagation
Paul A. Newman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. A. Olsen and E. R. Nash

4:15 PM
12.4
Mesospheric structure of the 2009 major stratospheric sudden warming as seen in the 0-100km analysis fields from the NOGAPS-ALPHA data assimilation system
Lawrence Coy, NRL, Washington, DC; and J. P. McCormack, D. E. Siskind, S. D. Eckermann, F. Sassi, and K. W. Hoppel
4:30 PM
12.5
Mesospheric Temperature Enhancements over Antarctica During Wintertime Planetary Wave Surges in 2007
I. Azeem, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and W. J. R. French, D. E. Siskind, and G. G. Sivjee

4:45 PM
12.6

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


AMS 91st Annual Meeting Adjourns