92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Session 5B: Tropical Climate Variability I


Chair:  Aiguo Dai, NCAR
Papers:
 
Temperature-Moisture Dependence of the Deep Convective Transition As a Metric for Intercomparison of Climate Models
Sandeep Sahany, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin, K. Hales, and R. B. Neale

 
Recent Intensification of Northern Hemispheric Monsoon Precipitation
Bin Wang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and J. Liu, H. J. Kim, P. J. Webster, and T. Schroeder

 
A Multi-Diagnostic Intercomparison of Tropical Width Time Series Using Models, Reanalyses, and Satellite Observations
Sean M. Davis, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and K. H. Rosenlof and P. J. Young

 
Analysis of the Tropical Vorticity Budget
Ricardo M. Fonseca, Portugal; and B. J. Hoskins and M. Blackburn

 
Climatology of Tropical Cloud Clusters
Christopher C. Hennon, Univ. of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC; and P. P. Papin and C. M. Zarzar