Session 1 |
| | Tropical Dynamics |
| | Organizer: Ming Cai, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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| 8:30 AM | 1.1 | Self-Similarity in Organized Tropical Convection
George N. Kiladis, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and K. H. Straub and P. T. Haertel |
| 8:50 AM | 1.2 | Characterizing the ITCZ in the central to eastern Pacific on synoptic timescales in observations  
Chia–chi Wang, Department of Earth System Science, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir |
| 9:10 AM | 1.3 | Regulation of tropical deep convection by boundary layer momentum dynamics and free tropospheric thermodynamics
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and J. D. Neelin |
| 9:30 AM | 1.4 | Connections between PV Intrusions and Tropical Convection
Beatriz Funatsu, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh |
| 9:50 AM | 1.5 | Precipitation fronts and tropical wave dynamics
Olivier Pauluis, New York Univ., New York, NY; and D. M. Frierson and A. J. Majda |