Session 11 | 
|   | Large-Scale Dynamics II | 
|   | Organizers: Dieter H. W. Peters, University of Rostock, Kühlungsborn, Mecklenburg Germany; Thomas Reichlar, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 
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 | 10:30 AM | 11.1 | Instability and wave propagation in compressible quasi-geostrophic dynamics    Richard K. Scott, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and D. G. Dritschel | 
 | 10:50 AM | 11.2 | Influences of baroclinic eddies on the Hadley cell    Christopher C. Walker, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider | 
 | 11:10 AM | 11.3 | Ensemble estimation of balanced dynamics    Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 
 | 11:30 AM | 11.4 | Vertical modes in a moist convecting atmosphere    Matthew E. Peters, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. S. Bretherton | 
 | 11:50 AM | 11.5 | On the available energy of symmetric circulations    Sorin Codoban, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd | 
 | 12:10 PM |  | Lunch Break   
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 | 1:45 PM | 11.6 | Eddies and thermally forced meridional overturning circulations    Simona Bordoni, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and T. Schneider and B. Stevens | 
 | 2:05 PM | 11.7 | Nonlinear Thermally Forced Circulations in Three Dimensions    Timothy J. Dunkerton, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA | 
 | 2:25 PM | 11.8 | A parameter sweep experiment on quasi-periodic variations of the polar vortex due to wave-wave interaction in a barotropic model    Yasuko Hio, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and S. Yoden | 
 | 2:45 PM | 11.9 | Distributed forcing of forecast and assimilation error systems    Brian Farrell, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and P. J. Ioannou | 
 | 3:05 PM | 11.10 | Energy Transports in an Idealized Moist GCM    Dargan M. Frierson, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and I. Held and P. Zurita-Gotor | 
 | 3:25 PM | 11.11 | Dynamics of error growth in an NWP system    H. C. Davies, ETH,  Zurich, Switzerland; and M. Didone and M. Sprenger |