14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere

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Saturday, 28 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Sat 28 Jan

7:30 AM-7:31 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Short Course and Student Conference Registration

Sunday, 29 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Sun 29 Jan

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Conference Registration

Monday, 30 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Mon 30 Jan

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February

9:00 AM-11:45 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Basin–Scale And Decadal Variability
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Daniel J. Vimont, Univ. of Wisconsin
  9:00 AM
1.1
Investigating the causes of the response of the thermohaline circulation to past and future climate changes
Ronald Stouffer, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and J. Yin, J. Gregory, K. W. Dixon, M. Spelman, W. Hurlin, A. Weaver, M. Eby, G. M. Flato, H. Hasumi, A. Hu, J. H. Jungclaus, I. V. Kamenkovich, A. Levermann, M. Montoya, S. Murakami, S. Nawrath, A. Oka, W. R. Peltier, D. Y. Robitaille, A. P. Sokolov, G. Vettoretti, and S. L. Weber
  9:15 AM
1.2
  9:30 AM
1.3
positive feedback between NAO and SSTA tripole in the North Atlantic region
Lin-Lin Pan, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and F. F. Jin
  9:45 AM
1.4
Effects of Ekman Transport on the NAO Response to a Tropical Atlantic SST Anomaly
Shiling Peng, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson, S. Li, and M. A. Alexander
  10:00 AM
1.5
The Midlatitude Atmospheric Bridge to the North Pacific
Grant Branstator, NCAR, Boulder, CO

  10:15 AM
1.6
Statistical prediction of midlatitude Pacific sea surface temperatures
Cécile Penland, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and M. Alexander and L. Matrosova
  10:45 AM
1.8
Seasonal dependence of the WES feedback in the Pacific
Daniel J. Vimont, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  11:00 AM
1.9
Are El Niño events becoming more prevalent?
Todd Mitchell, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. M. Wallace

  11:30 AM
1.5A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

12:00 PM-1:10 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Plenary Session 1
AMS Forum Kick-Off Luncheon (Cash & Carry available in the Meeting Room Foyer)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; the Event Program; the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the 15th Symposium on Education; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the Second Special Session on Heat Health )
Chairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.; Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS
  12:00 PM
PL1.1
Forum opening
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and M. Andrews, C. S. B. Grimmond, and S. R. Hanna

  12:10 PM
PL1.2
How should we compare and evaluate urban land surface models?
Martin Best, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom

  12:40 PM
PL1.3
THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS: A MIX OF CURSES AND BLESSINGS
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 2
VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Studies (VOCALS) I
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Carlos R. Mechoso, Univ. of California
  1:30 PM
2.1
The VOCALS Program - Ocean Dynamics, Stratocumulus and Climate in the Southeast Pacific
Christopher S. Bretherton, Univ.of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. A. Weller and C. R. Mechoso
  1:45 PM
2.2
Coupled Simulations by the UCLA AGCM with a new PBL Parameterization and the MIT OGCM: Sensitivity to the AGCM Resolution
Gabriel Cazes-Boezio, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. S. Konor, A. Arakawa, and C. R. Mechoso
  2:00 PM
2.3
Regional climate dynamics and remote tropical influences for subtropical eastern oceanic boundaries
James C. McWilliams, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and X. Capet, F. Colas, A. Hall, W. Large, and G. Danabasoglu
  2:15 PM
2.4
Low-level coastal jet off central Chile: Climatology, dynamics, and associated cloud/SST properties
René Garreaud, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and R. Muñoz and J. Rullant

2:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Poster Session 1
VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Studies (VOCALS)
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Carlos R. Mechoso, Univ. of California
 
P1.1
Mesoscale stratocumulus cloud patterns around San Felix Island
David A. Painemal, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and J. A. Rutllant and R. D. Garreaud

Poster PDF (241.3 kB)

 
P1.2
Monitoring the Air-Sea Interface under the Chile-Peru Stratus
Keir Colbo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA; and R. A. Weller

 
P1.3
Diurnal variability of the cloud field over the VOCALS domain from GOES imagery
Jose M. Galvez, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Orozco and M. W. Douglas

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)

 
P1.4
Offshore transport episodes of anthropogenic sulfur in northern Chile: potential impact on the stratocumulus cloud deck
Nicolás Huneeus, Univ.of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France; and L. Gallardo and J. A. Rutllant

Poster PDF (232.9 kB)

 
P1.5
The sensitivity of Peruvian stratocumulus to the large-scale environment
Ingo Richter, Univ.of Caifornia, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso

 
P1.6
Impact of Estimates of Initial Ocean State on ENSO Forecasts
Gabriel Cazes-Boezio, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. Menemenlis and C. R. Mechoso


Poster Session 2
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Basin-Scale and Decadal Variability
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Daniel J. Vimont, Univ. of Wisconsin
 
P2.1
Variability of monthly FSU wind stress and heat fluxes over the Atlantic Ocean
Paul J. Hughes, COAPS/ Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa, J. J. O'Brien, and S. R. Smith

 
P2.2
Spatial Variability of Random Error and Biases in the FSU3 Winds
M. A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. R. Smith

 
P2.3
The Impact of Ekman Transport on Air-Sea Interaction in the North Pacific during ENSO
Michael Alexander, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Scott

 
P2.4
Identification of El Niño's dynamical regime in the Climate Forecast System
Cecile Penland, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and S. Saha

 
P2.5
Spatial and Temporal Structure of ENSO in 20th Century Climate Simulations
Antonietta Capotondi, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 
P2.6
Seasonal characteristrics of air-sea coupled process and their implication on predictability
Kyung Emilia Jin, COLA, Calverton, MD; and I. S. Kang and J. L. Kinter III

 
P2.7
Coupled Air Sea Interaction in the South Pacific
Niklas Schneider, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 3
The Role of Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction in Tropical Climate and Its Variation
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Bin Wang, Univ. of Hawaii
  4:00 PM
3.1
  4:30 PM
3.3
  4:45 PM
3.4
  5:00 PM
3.5
The equatorial Atlantic variability in an Intermediate Coupled Model: Air-sea coupling versus remote ENSO forcing
Serena Illig, LEGOS/OMP, Toulouse, France; and B. Dewitte, D. Gushchina, N. Ayoub, and Y. Du Penhoat
  5:15 PM
3.6

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Sessions end for the day (M)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Holton Symposium Banquet

Tuesday, 31 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Tue 31 Jan

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 4
Marine Clouds and VOCALS II
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Carlos R. Mechoso, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA
  8:30 AM
4.1
An explanation of actiniae cloud patterns
Ernest Agee, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
  8:45 AM
4.2
Tropical Dendritic Cumulus: An Observational Analysis
Stephen D. Nicholls, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and G. S. Young
  9:15 AM
4.4
Boundary layer, cloud, and drizzle variability in the southeast Pacific stratocumulus regime
Efthymios Serpetzoglou, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and V. P. Ghate, B. A. Albrecht, P. Kollias, and C. Fairall
  9:30 AM
4.5
Links between the microphysics and macrophysics of low clouds over southeast Pacific Ocean (VOCALS Submission)
Robert Wood, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. Comstock, S. E. Yuter, C. S. Bretherton, P. Caldwell, C. W. Fairall, J. Tomlinson, and P. Zuidema
  9:45 AM
4.3A
Buoy observations of air-sea interactions in the VOCALS stratocumulus region
Keir Colbo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA; and R. A. Weller

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Poster Session 1
MARINE METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF REAL AND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere and 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Jochen Horstmann, GKSS Research Center; Nathaniel S. Winstead, Johns Hopkins Univ.
 
JP1.1
Validation of QuikSCAT wind retrievals in tropical cyclone environments
Christopher C. Hennon, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville, NC; and D. G. Long and F. J. Wentz

Poster PDF (158.6 kB)

 
JP1.2
Cyclogenesis and Tropical Transition in decaying frontal zones
Michelle L. Stewart, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa

 
JP1.3
Near surface winds in the vicinity of SST gradients as observed by QuikSCAT
Joseph M. Sienkiewicz, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and G. McFadden

 
JP1.5
 
JP1.6
High resolution rain retrieval from SeaWinds scatterometer data
David G. Long, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT

Poster PDF (694.3 kB)

 
JP1.7
Revealing the SeaWinds ocean vector winds under the rain using AMSR: Part II, the empirical approach
Bryan W. Stiles, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. N. Huddleston, S. M. Hristova-Veleva, R. S. Dunbar, M. H. Freilich, B. A. Vanhoff, S. H. Yueh, S. V. Hsiao, G. Neumann, P. S. Callahan, R. W. Gaston, and W. Y. Tsai

 
JP1.8
Revealing the SeaWinds ocean vector winds under the rain using AMSR. Part I: The physical approach
S. M. Hristova-Veleva, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and P. S. Callahan, R. S. Dunbar, S. H. Yueh, B. W. Stiles, J. N. Huddleston, S. V. Hsiao, G. Neumann, M. H. Freilich, B. A. Vanhoff, W. Y. Tsai, and R. W. Gaston

 
JP1.9
Using synthetic aperture radar to study coastal flows in the Gulf of Alaska
Nathaniel S. Winstead, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and B. A. Colle, G. S. Young, N. A. Bond, F. M. Monaldo, and D. R. Thompson

 
JP1.10
A Novel Approach to Marine Wind Speed Assessment using Synthetic Aperture Radar
Todd D. Sikora, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and G. Young and N. Winstead

Poster PDF (313.8 kB)

 
JP1.11
RAMS Simulated and SAR Observed Flow Interactions in the Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska
Haibo Liu, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK; and P. Olsson, K. Volz, and H. Yi

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

 
JP1.12
Multi-sensor analysis of cold water along the Mid-Atlantic coast during midsummer 2003
Donglian Sun, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and M. Kafatos and R. Yang


Poster Session 3
The Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction In Tropical Climate And Its Variations
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Bin Wang, Univ. of Hawaii
 
P3.2
The role of ocean circulation in the surface budget of heat and freshwater in the Bay of Bengal
Sara Vieira, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and E. Di Lorenzo and P. Webster

 
P3.3
Local monsoon variability and rainwater harvesting
Raghu Murtugudde, ESSIC, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and P. Bhat

 
P3.4
The influence of Tropical Indian Ocean SST on the Indian summer monsoon
Annalisa Cherchi, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Bologna, Italy; and S. Gualdi, S. Behera, J. J. Luo, S. Masson, A. Navarra, and T. Yamagata

 
P3.5
Influence of local SSTAs and surface processes on the Sahel Rainfall
Marco Gaetani, IBIMET/CNR, Rome, Italy; and G. A. Dalu, V. Capecchi, and M. Baldi

Poster PDF (63.4 kB)

 
P3.6
VARIABILITY OF SURFACE TURBULENT FLUXES OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN
Robert F. Banks, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa, P. Hughes, J. J. O'Brien, and S. R. Smith

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

 
P3.7
The atmosphere heat budget over the tropical oceans
Alice Fan, Science Applications International Corporation, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin

Poster PDF (134.1 kB)

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1)

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 5
Air–Sea Turbulent Flux Parameterizations
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Michael A. Brunke, Univ.of Arizona
  11:00 AM
5.1
Physics-based parameterization of air-sea momentum flux at high wind speeds and its impact on hurricane predictions
Il-Ju Moon, Cheju National University, Jujusi, South Korea; and I. Ginis, T. Hara, and B. Thomas
  11:15 AM
5.2
  11:30 AM
5.3
Critical re-evaluation of the bulk transfer coefficient for sensible heat over the ocean during unstable and neutral conditions
Ulf Högström, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden; and A. S. Smedman, E. Sahlée, and C. Johansson

  11:45 AM
5.4
Bulk Exchange Coefficient for Humidity at Sea during Unstable and Neutral Conditions: A Re-evaluation based on new Field Data
Erik Sahlée, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden; and A. S. Smedman, U. Högström, and A. Rutgersson

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Exhbits Open (T)

12:15 PM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.)
Hosts: (Joint between the Event Program; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 15th Symposium on Education; the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; and the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 6
Space–Based Air–Sea Turbulent Fluxes
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Mark A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ.
  1:45 PM
6.1
Improved estimates of net air-sea Fluxes over the atlantic ocean
Abderrahim Bentamy, IFREMER, Plouzane, France; and H. L. Ayina, A. M. Nunez, K. Katsaros, and R. Pinker
  2:00 PM
6.2
Interannual variability of tropical ocean evaporation: a comparison of microwave satellite and assimilation results
Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and G. A. Wick, D. L. Jackson, and M. G. Bosilovich

  2:30 PM
6.4
Satellite scatterometer-derived air-sea fluxes for numerical modeling of the upper ocean response to tropical cyclones
Steven L. Morey, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa, D. S. Dukhovskoy, and J. J. O'Brien
  2:45 PM
6.5
Advances in higher resolution global ocean observing system: sea surface wind speed perspective
Huai-Min Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates and R. W. Reynolds

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (T2)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 7
In Situ Air–Sea Turbulent Flux Measurements
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Elizabeth C. Kent, Southampton Oceanography Centre
  3:45 PM
7.2
Aircraft air-sea flux measurements in the Gulf of Tehuantepec
Carl A. Friehe, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and D. Khelif and W. K. Melville
  4:00 PM
7.3
Surface Turbulent Stress Derived from GPS Dropsondes
M. A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
  4:15 PM
7.4
Quadrant analysis of the scalar and momentum fluxes in the marine Atmospheric Surface Layer
George Katsouvas, Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece; and C. G. Helmis and Q. Wang
  4:30 PM
7.5
The influence of waves and turbulence on the oceanic heat flux
Fabrice Veron, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and W. K. Melville
  4:45 PM
7.6
Atmospheric turbulent exchange of heat and matter during stable stratification over the sea
Ann-Sofi Smedman, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden; and U. Högström and E. Sahlée
  5:00 PM
7.7
Modelling new processes controlling the turbulent fluxes over sea
Anna Rutgersson, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden; and B. Carlsson and A. S. Smedman
  5:15 PM
7.8
High quality fluxes from ICOADS ship reports
David Inglis Berry, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; and E. C. Kent

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Sessions end for the day (T)

Wednesday, 1 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Wed 1 Feb

8:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Joint Session 4
Marine Meteorological Applications of Real and Synthetic Aperture Radar (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere and the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Jochen Horstmann, GKSS Research Center; Nathaniel S. Winstead, Johns Hopkins Univ.
  8:30 AM
J4.1
WindSat Wind Vector Retrievals in the Presence of Clouds
Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and T. Mavor, L. N. Connor, and P. S. Chang
  9:00 AM
J4.3
Assessment of Enivsat ASAR wind speed retrieval performance
Frank M. Monaldo, APL/Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and D. R. Thompson
  9:15 AM
J4.4
Estimation of Surface Winds From SAR Using a Projection Algorithm
Christopher C. Wackerman, Advanced Information Systems, Ypsilanti, MI; and W. Pichel, X. Li, and P. Clemente_Colon
  9:30 AM
J4.5
Operational Wind Field Retrieval using C-band Synthetic Aperture Radars
Jochen Horstmann, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; and W. Koch
  9:45 AM
J4.6
Surface marine wind retrieval in non-precipitating regions
C. Harold Ritchie, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and R. E. Danielson and M. Dowd
  10:00 AM
J4.7
Synthetic Aperture Radar Observations of Mesoscale Atmospheric Phenomena
George Young, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and N. S. Winstead, F. M. Monaldo, D. R. Thompson, and T. D. Sikora
  10:15 AM
J4.8
Wind energy applications of synthetic aperture radar
Merete B. Christiansen, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark; and C. B. Hasager
  10:30 AM
J4.9
Hurricane Watch: Operational analysis of hurricane characteristics using synthetic aperture radar
Hans C. Graber, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and J. Horstmann, F. M. Monaldo, and S. Iris
  10:45 AM
J4.10
A Composite Study of SAR Wind Observations in Southeast Alaska
Carl F. Dierking, NOAA/NWS, Juneau, AK; and T. A. Ress and M. J. Foster
  11:00 AM
J4.11
  11:15 AM
J4.12
RADARSAT Derived Wind and Other Environmental Products for Maritime Operations
Paris Vachon, Defence R&D, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and B. G. Whitehouse and W. M. Renaud
  11:30 AM
J4.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

11:00 AM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Exhibits Open (W)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (W)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 8
Remote Sensing Applied to Air–Sea Interaction
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ERL/ETL
  1:30 PM
8.1
Surface Wind Response to oceanic Fronts
Qingtao Song, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and P. Cornillon and T. Hara
  1:45 PM
8.2
  2:00 PM
8.3
Friction Velocity Measurements using a Marine Radar
Jochen Horstmann, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; and H. Dankert
  2:15 PM
8.4
Momentum fluxes and turbulence structure of the marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Costas Helmis, Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece; and G. Sgouros, C. Halios, and Q. Wang

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (W2)

2:30 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Poster Session 4
Modeling and Prediction of Air-Sea Interaction
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: Todd D. Sikora, Millersville Univ.; Niklas Schneider, IPRC/Univ. of Hawaii
 
P4.1
Predicting significant wave height off the northeast coast of the United States
Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and S. Wang

Poster PDF (228.1 kB)

 
P4.2
The feedback between entrainment flux and sea surface temperature
Jeremiah Brown, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson

Poster PDF (163.9 kB)

 
P4.3
A Lagrangian turbulent transport model of evolving sea-spray droplets over water waves
James A. Mueller, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and F. Veron

Poster PDF (302.6 kB)

 
P4.4
Influences of sea spray and wave drag on midlatitude storm structure and intensity
Weiqing Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and W. Li

Poster PDF (407.3 kB)

 
P4.5
Synergism between a nonlinear PBL model and satellite wind data
R. A. Brown, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Patoux and R. Foster

Poster PDF (958.1 kB)

 
P4.6
Numerical Prediction of Wind Waves and Related Air-Sea Fluxes
Leonel Romero, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. M. Kleiss and W. K. Melville

 
P4.7
The contribution of wave breaking to air-sea interaction
Jessica M. Kleiss, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and L. Romero and W. K. Melville

 
P4.8
A New Advection Scheme for Calculating the Long Distance Transport of Water Vapor
Jiqing Tan Sr., Zhejiang Univ., Zhejiang, China; and Y. YU and D. Qi

Poster PDF (125.3 kB)

3:45 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Sessions end for the day (W)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Joint Session 6
Air-Sea Exchange of Trace Gases (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere, the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, and the AMS Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Success and Challenges)
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  4:30 PM
J6.2
Using DMS as a model gas for studying air sea gas exchange via eddy covariance
Barry J. Huebert, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. W. Blomquist
  4:45 PM
J6.3
Water-side Turbulence Enhancement of Ozone Deposition to the Ocean
C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and D. Helmig, J. E. Hare, and L. Ganzveld
  5:00 PM
J6.4
Marine storm impacts on bubbles and air-sea exchange of gases
Weiqing Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and S. Vagle
  5:15 PM
J6.5

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 2 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


THUR 2 FEB

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 9
Regional Scale Air–Sea Interaction
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: W.T. Liu, JPL/California Institute of Technology; Richard Justin Orford Small, Univ. of Hawaii; Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey
  8:30 AM
9.1
Ocean-atmosphere interaction over Agulhas Extension meanders
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie and P. P. Niiler
  8:45 AM
9.2
Upper-ocean response to small-scale wind forcing in the Agulhas Return Current
Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey, Monterey, CA; and D. B. Chelton, R. Matano, and A. Fetter
  9:00 AM
9.3
Air-sea interaction over quasi-permanent meanders in the Gulf Stream
Richard Justin Orford Small, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI HI; and S. P. Xie and Y. Wang
  9:15 AM
9.4
The role of Gulf Stream Warm Core Eddies on East Coast Winter Storms
Matthew P. Borkowski, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman and G. M. Lackmann

  9:30 AM
9.5
Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Feedback in Eastern Equatorial Pacific
Hyodae Seo, IPRC, Univ. Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and A. J. Miller and J. Roads
  9:45 AM
9.6
High-resolution simulation of eastern Pacific climate with a regional coupled model
Shang-Ping Xie, IPRC/SOEST, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Wang, T. Miyama, H. Xu, S. de Szoeke, R. J. Small, and K. Richards

  10:00 AM
9.7
Atmospheric response to oceanic mesoscale variability
Raghu Murtugudde, ESSIC/Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. Seo, M. Jochum, and A. Miller
  10:15 AM
9.8
Low-level cloud variability over the equatorial cold tongue
David K. Mansbach, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. R. Norris
  10:30 AM
9.9
Enhanced rainfall over warm ocean eddies in the eastern tropical Pacific
Hemantha W. Wijesekera, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and C. A. Paulson
  10:45 AM
9.10
Coastal upwelling studies using a coupled ocean-atmosphere model
Natalie Perlin, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and E. D. Skyllingstad, R. M. Samelson, and P. L. Barbour

  11:00 AM
9.5A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Poster Session 5
Air-Sea Interaction In Tropical Cyclones and Intraseasonal Oscillations
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: Tim Li, Univ. of Hawaii; Duane Waliser, SUNY; Ralph C. Foster, APL/Univ. of Washington; Lynn Shay, Univ. of Miami
 
P5.1
Contribution of wind-forced coastally trapped waves to coastal sea level rise during a hurricane
Dmitry S. Dukhovskoy, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Morey, M. A. Bourassa, and J. J. O'Brien

 
P5.2
Vorticity-Based Detection of Tropical Cyclogenesis
Michelle M. Hite, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa and J. J. O'Brien

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
P5.3
Relation between ENSO and tropical cyclones in the WNP simulated in a CGCM
Satoshi IIzuka, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Matsuura, M. Fujita, and H. Fudeyasu

Poster PDF (748.0 kB)

 
P5.5
Forecasting Typhoon Chaba's (2004) intensity change using a coupled atmosphere-ocean-wave model
Jun Yoshino, Gifu Univ., Gifu, Japan; and T. Murakami, M. Hayashi, and T. Yasuda

Poster PDF (202.0 kB)

 
P5.7
Impact of air/sea interactions in simulating the transition phase of the intraseasonal oscillation
Paula A. Agudelo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. A. Curry and C. A. Clayson

 
P5.8
Evaluation of extended intraseasonal forecasting using slow manifold modeling
Carlos D. Hoyos, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster, F. Vitart, M. Miller, T. N. Palmer, and M. Hortal

 
P5.9
The Characteristics of Intraseasonal Oscillation Intensity
Liping Li, NASA/GISS, Fairfax, VA; and S. Yang, P. Wang, and Z. Guan

 
P5.11
Equilibrium Translation Model—A Key to Tropical Hurricane Development
Irakli G. Shekriladze, Georgian Technical Univ., Tbilisi, Georgia


Poster Session 6
Regional Scale Air-Sea Interaction
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: Richard Justin Orford Small, NRL; W.T. Liu, JPL, California Institute of Technology; Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey
 
P6.1
The marine atmospheric boundary layer over the eastern Pacific and its simulation in climate models
Michael A. Brunke, Univ.of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng and M. Zhou

 
P6.2
Air-sea coupling in the eastern Pacific: a regional modeling study
S.P. de Szoeke, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. J. Small and S. P. Xie

 
P6.3
In-situ observations of Kuroshio Extension's influence on the atmosphere
Shang-Ping Xie, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Tanimoto, H. Tokigana, K. Kai, M. Nonaka, and H. Nakamura

 
P6.5
Sensitivity of East Coast winter storms to sea surface temperature gradients
Neil A. Jacobs, AirDat LLC, Morrisville, NC; and S. Raman and G. M. Lackmann

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

 
P6.7
Interannual heat budget of the California Current region
Kathleen A. Edwards, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. A. Kelly

 
P6.8
Heat transport analyses of the tropical Atlantic ocean mixed layer using satellite based observations
Robert Helber, NRL, Stennis, MS; and F. Bonjean, R. H. Weisberg, E. S. Johnson, and L. Yu

 
P6.9
Guinea Gulf SST anomalies impact on Mediterranean 2003 summer: a numerical sensitivity analysis
Massimiliano Pasqui, NRC, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; and M. Baldi, F. Cesarone, G. A. Dalu, and G. De Chiara

 
P6.10
Physical Mechanisms Associated With the Variability of Lake Victoria Basin Climate
Richard Anyah, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and F. Semazzi and L. Xie

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

 
P6.11
A Framework for Coupled Modeling
Hao Jin, SAIC, Monterey, CA; and R. M. Hodur

Poster PDF (681.4 kB)

11:00 AM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Exhibits Open (Th)

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (Th)

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 10
Air-Sea Interaction in Tropical Cyclones and Intraseasonal Oscillations
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: Tim Li, Univ. of Hawaii; Ralph C. Foster, Univ. of Washington; Lynn Shay, University of Miami; Duane Edward Waliser, JPL
  1:30 PM
10.1
Measurements of boundary layer depth in hurricanes
Susanne Lehner, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. G. Black, W. Drennan, K. B. Katsaros, and P. Vachon
  1:45 PM
10.2
  2:00 PM
10.3
Multi scale roll structures in the atmospheric boundary layer
Otto Chkhetiani, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; and V. Ponomarev and L. Shestakova
  2:45 PM
10.6
Coherent structures in turbulent convection: observations, theory and experiments
Nathan Kleeorin, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel; and A. Eidelman, T. Elperin, I. Rogachevskii, A. Markovich, and S. Zilitinkevich
  3:00 PM
10.7
Positive feedback regimes during tropical cyclone passage
Lynn K. (Nick) Shay, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
  3:15 PM
10.8
Subseasonal Organization of Ocean Chlorophyll: Prospects for Prediction Based on the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena,, CA; and R. Murtugudde, P. Strutton, and J. L. Li
  3:30 PM
10.9
Sensitivity of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation prediction to boundary conditions
Xiouhua (Joshua) Fu, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang, D. E. Waliser, and L. Tao
  4:15 PM
10.12
Role of air-sea interaction on the Madden–Julian Oscillation using a coupled AGCM–slab ocean model
Andrew G. Marshall, Monash Univ., Clayton, Victoria, Australia; and O. Alves and H. H. Hendon
  4:30 PM
10.13
Transition between suppressed and active phases of intraseasonal oscillations in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
Paula A. Agudelo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. A. Curry, C. D. Hoyos, and P. J. Webster
  4:45 PM
10.14
A Two-way Coupled Modeling Study of Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions during Hurricane Frances (2004)
Hao Jin, SAIC, Monterey, CA; and Y. Jin, R. M. Hodur, and J. Doyle
  5:00 PM
10.5A
Progress in Hurricane Boundary Layer Roll Theory
Ralph C. Foster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  5:15 PM
10.6A
Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and AMS iPod Raffle

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Registration Desk Closes

4:00 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Exhibit Close

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Conference Ends

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Lilly Symposium Banquet