11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere (Expanded View)

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Sunday, 9 January 2000
7:30 AM-9:30 AM, Sunday
1 Short Course Registration
 
9:00 AM, Sunday
1 Conference Registration
 
Monday, 10 January 2000
7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday
1 Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January
 
8:55 AM-12:00 PM, Monday
Session 1 Modeling and data assimilation
Organizer: M. Joan Alexander, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO
8:55 AMWelcoming Remarks  
9:00 AM1.1Development of an isentropic coordinate model of the middle atmosphere  
Joon-Hee Jung, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. S. Konor and A. Arakawa
9:15 AM1.2A numerical simulation study of the major stratospheric warming and subsequent flow recovery during the winter of 1979  
Joon-Hee Jung, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. S. Konor and C. R. Mechoso
9:30 AM1.3The spectrum of middle atmospheric motions predicted by three-dimensional general circulation models  
John N. Koshyk, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and K. Hamilton
9:45 AM1.4More experiences with a middle atmosphere GCM  
Theodore G. Shepherd, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
10:00 AMCoffee Break  
10:30 AM1.5Three dimensional model simulations of constituent transport in the lowermost stratosphere  
Anne R. Douglass, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. E. Strahan, C. H. Jackman, and R. B. Rood
1.6Analysis of low ozone in the 1997 Southern Hemisphere  
Simon Grainger, Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia
10:45 AM1.7A comparison of ozone transport and chemistry models using the GEOS ozone assimilation system  
Ivanka Stajner, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. B. Rood
11:00 AM1.8Improvements in stratospheric data assimilation  
Lawrence Coy, General Sciences Corp, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass, R. B. Rood, S. E. Strahan, J. E. Nielsen, and S. D. Steenrod
11:15 AM1.9Assimilation of ozone data in the context of observation system simulation experiments  
Paul-Antoine Michelangeli, Environment Canada, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and S. Pellerin, S. Edouard, G. Brunet, J. McConnell, J. Kaminski, and J. Hahn
1.10Assimilation of satellite data in 3-D CTMs using sub-optimal Kalman filter  
Boris V. Khattatov, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. F. Lamarque, J. Gille, G. Brasseur, P. Levelt, P. Rasch, and W. Collins
 
12:00 PM, Monday
1 Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-2:15 PM, Monday
Session 2 Applying Environmental Science to Societal Needs in the New Millennium
Organizer: Linnea M. Avallone, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM2.1The "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion, 1998": A Summary and Perspective  
Daniel L. Albritton, NOAA/Aeronomy Lab., Boulder, CO
 
2:15 PM-4:45 PM, Monday
Session 3 Trace constituents and long-term variability
Organizer: Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA
2:15 PM3.1Data sets available for stratospheric studies  
Nancy A. Ritchey, Computer Sciences Corporation, Hampton, VA; and W. P. Chu and K. Hoppel
2:30 PM3.2Variations in the stratospheric transport circulation 1991-1998 and effects on methane concentrations  
M. Joan Alexander, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and J. R. Holton and K. H. Rosenlof
2:45 PM3.3Mechanisms for the extra-tropical QBO phenomenon  
Ka-Kit Tung, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. S. Kinnersley
3:00 PMCoffee Break  
3:30 PM3.4Stratospheric Temperature Trends from Small Rockets Between 1969-1995  
F. J. Schmidlin, NASA/GSFC, Wallops Island, VA
3:45 PM3.5Model Analysis of Multi-Platform Measurements in the Stratosphere  
Michael Y. Danilin, AER, Cambridge, MA; and M. K. W. Ko, M. L. Santee, Y. Sasano, and K. Jucks
4:00 PM3.6Increasing CO2 coupled with other anthropogenic perturbations: Effects on ozone and other trace gases  
Joan E. Rosenfield, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
4:15 PM3.7HRDI observations of the O2(0,0) Atmospheric band nightglow: a seven-year climatology  
Julie F. Kafkalidis, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and G. M. Fall and P. B. Hays
4:30 PM3.8Evaluating spatial and temporal ozone distributions in the Pacific using Schools of the Pacific Climate and Rainfall Experiment observations  
Michael D. Klatt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Postawko
 
4:45 PM, Monday
1 Sessions end for the day
 
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
 
7:30 PM, Monday
1 Fujita Banquet
 
Tuesday, 11 January 2000
8:30 AM-2:15 PM, Tuesday
Session 4 Dynamics, transport, and mixing
Organizers: Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; Gloria Manney, JPL, Pasadena, CA
8:30 AM4.1Planetary Wave Interactions in the Antarctic Stratosphere  
Mark Harvey, Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia
8:45 AM4.2Observed evolution of vertical planetary wave structure in relation to the propagation characteristics of the basic state  
Nili Harnik, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen
9:00 AM4.3Saturation of vertically propagating Rossby waves  
Constantine Giannitsis, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen
9:15 AM4.4Westward Traveling Hemispheric Modes and Modes in a Continuous Spectrum of Atmospheric Oscillations  
Boris E. Stepanov, Novosibirsk State Technical Univ., Novosibirsk, Russia
9:30 AM4.5A study of the nonlinear evolution of symmetric inertial instability and the resulting redistribution of mass and momentum  
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton
9:45 AM4.6Inertially Unstable Temperature Structures in the Middle Atmosphere: A Re-examination  
John A. Knox, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN
10:00 AMCoffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m.)  
10:30 AMWALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada  
11:30 AMWMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Meteorology and the Environment-The WMO Perspective Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland  
12:15 PMConference Luncheon (Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Silver Spring, MD)  
 
2:15 PM-4:45 PM, Tuesday
Session 4 Continued
2:15 PM4.7Eddy dissipation rates derived from observations of propagating diurnal tides  
Elsayed R. Talaat, APL, Laurel, MD; and R. S. Lieberman
2:30 PM4.8Seasonal evolution of ozone-methane correlations in the polar regions  
David Sankey, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2:45 PM4.9Variability of stratospheric ozone and aerosol in 1995 to 1997 derived from SAGE II and HALOE measurements  
Cheng-Hsuan Lu, SUNY, Albany, NY; and G. K. Yue, G. L. Manney, and V. A. Mohnen
3:00 PM4.10Climatology of Wave Breaking and Mixing in the Northern Hemisphere Summer Stratosphere  
Richard E. Wagner, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and K. P. Bowman
3:15 PM4.11Variability of the "tropical pipe" boundaries in the stratosphere  
Jessica L. Neu, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and L. C. Sparling and R. A. Plumb
3:30 PMCoffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:30 p.m.)  
4:00 PM4.12Lobe Dynamics and Transport in the Stratosphere  
Kenneth P. Bowman, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
4:15 PM4.13Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic winter-to-summer transition in the stratosphere  
Douglas R. Allen, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and N. Nakamura
4:30 PM4.14Stratospheric aerosol transport out of the tropics observed by the High Resolution Doppler Imager  
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA
 
4:45 PM, Tuesday
1 Sessions end for the day
 
Wednesday, 12 January 2000
10:00 AM, Wednesday
1 Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.)
 
11:15 AM, Wednesday
1 Remote Sensing Lecture Title: Remote Sensing from Space Using Occultation and Lidar Techniques Speaker: M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA
 
12:00 PM, Wednesday
1 Lunch Break
 
2:00 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday
Joint Session 2 Joint Session with the 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology (Invited Oral Presentation) (Joint between the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere)
Organizer: Kenneth Bowman, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
2:00 PMJ2.1Ozone profiling with UV and visible limb scatter data  
David E. Flittner, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and R. D. McPeters and B. M. Herman
 
2:30 PM, Wednesday
Joint Session 3 Panel Discussion on New Sounder and Imagers for NPOESS, METOP, SSMIS (Joint with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography & 11th Conference on Middle Atmosphere)
 
3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday
Joint Poster Session 2 Joint Poster Session (Joint with the 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Organizer: Kenneth Bowman, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
 JP2.1A data assimilation technique for determining tidal and zonal mean structure in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere from satellite measurements of wind and temperature  
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA
 JP2.2How well can satellite retrievals resolve the vertical structure of planetary waves?  
Nili Harnik, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen
 JP2.3Middle Atmosphere Temperature Profiles from SSMIS  
Barbara A. Burns, GenCorp Aerojet, Azusa, CA
 JP2.4Ozone Observations from Five Satellite Instruments in November 1994  
Gloria L. Manney, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. A. Michelsen, F. W. Irion, M. R. Gunson, R. M. Bevilacqua, N. J. Livesey, J. M. Russell III, and J. M. Zawodny
 JP2.5HNO3 measurements from MLS on the UARS and EOS CHEM satellites  
Michelle L. Santee, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and G. L. Manney, N. J. Livesey, J. W. Waters, F. W. Irion, M. R. Gunson, M. J. Filipiak, J. B. Kumer, and A. E. Roche
 JP2.6The use of ATOVS - AMSU data in NCEP stratospheric analyses  
Melvyn E. Gelman, NOAA/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and A. J. Miller, C. S. Long, J. D. Wild, J. J. R. Lin, M. D. Goldberg, and A. L. Reale
 JP2.7An Intense Midwestern Cyclone: Fine-scale Comparison of Model Analysis with TOMS Total Ozone Data  
William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and M. A. Olsen, J. L. Stanford, and J. M. Brown
 
3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday
Poster Session 1 Poster Session P1 (With Coffee Break - Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 p.m.)
Organizer: Kenneth P. Bowman, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
 P1.1Simple and Accurate Potential Temperature-Altitude Relationships for the Middle Atmosphere  
John A. Knox, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN
 P1.2Principal components of stratospheric circulation and trace constituents from UKMO analyses and HALOE observations  
Timothy J. Dunkerton, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA
 P1.3Studies of stratospheric tropical-midlatitude transport using UARS data  
Stacey K. McIlwaine, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. M. Avallone
 P1.4Break up of the Arctic vortices: timing and mixing  
Ping-Ping Rong, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh
 P1.5Observations and modeling of transport during the December 1998 stratospheric major warming  
Gloria L. Manney, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and R. M. Bevilacqua, W. A. Lahoz, A. O'Neill, and J. M. Russell III
 P1.6TRENDS IN LOWER STRATOSPHERIC ZONAL WINDS, ROSSBY WAVE BREAKING BEHAVIOR, AND COLUMN OZONE AT NORTHERN MID-LATITUDES  
L. L. Hood, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. Rossi and M. Beulen
 
6:00 PM, Wednesday
1 Reception (Cash Bar)
 
7:30 PM, Wednesday
1 AMS Annual Awards Banquet
 
Thursday, 13 January 2000
8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday
Session 5 Gravity waves
Organizer: John N. Koshyk, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
8:30 AM5.1Evidence for inertia-gravity waves in HRDI mesospheric winds  
Ruth S. Lieberman, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO
8:45 AM5.2High resolution simulation of observed cases of stratospheric gravity wave breakdown  
Daniel Marc Landau, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and M. G. Wurtele and L. J. Ehernberger
9:00 AM5.3Sources of gravity waves simulated by a high-resolution GCM  
Kaoru Sato, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan; and M. Takahashi
9:15 AM5.4Gravity wave focusing in the middle atmosphere  
Len Sonmor, Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada; and G. P. Klaassen
9:30 AM5.5Effects of varying tropospheric wind shear on the spectrum of gravity waves generated by tropical convection  
Jadwiga H. Beres, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. J. Alexander and J. R. Holton
5.6The stability of inertio-gravity waves  
Ka-Hing Yau, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. P. Klaassen and L. Sonmor
9:45 AMCoffee Break  
10:15 AM5.7A study of the interactions of tides and gravity waves  
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and M. J. Alexander
 
9:00 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday
1 Exhibit Hours
 
10:45 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Session 6 Dynamical and chemical coupling between the troposphere and middle atmosphere
Organizer: Lawrence Coy, General Sciences Corp, Greenbelt, MD
10:45 AM6.1An Introduction to SOWER/Pacific  
Fumio Hasebe, Ibaraki Univ., Mito, Ibaraki, Japan; and M. Shiotani, H. Voemel, N. Nishi, M. Fujiwara, M. Niwano, S. Oltmans, T. Ogawa, and K. Gage
11:00 AMCoffee Break  
11:15 AMBernard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture Title: Cloud Feedback in the Climate System: The Role of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Speaker: Conway Leovy, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA  
12:00 PMLunch break  
 
1:30 PM-3:15 PM, Thursday
Session 6 Continued
1:30 PM6.2Dynamic coupling of the middle atmosphere and troposphere: Potential vorticity inversions of the Arctic Oscillation  
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
1:45 PM6.3Downward Propagation of the Arctic Oscillation from the Stratosphere to the Troposphere  
Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton
2:00 PM6.4The role of equatorial waves in stratosphere-troposphere exchange  
Masatomo Fujiwara, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Takahashi
2:15 PM6.5Vertically propagating stratospheric waves associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation  
George N. Kiladis, NOAA/ERL/AL, Boulder, CO; and K. A. Harris and G. C. Reid
2:30 PM6.6The response to the tropical intraseasonal oscillation in the tropopause region  
Philip W. Mote, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and H. L. Clark and T. J. Dunkerton
2:45 PM6.7On the latitudinal extent of upwelling caused by the extratropical wave pump  
Jonathan Kinnersley, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. K. Tung
3:00 PM6.8Re-examination of age-of-air in the middle atmosphere  
Xun Zhu, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and J. H. Yee and D. F. Strobel
 
3:15 PM, Thursday
1 Conference Ends
 

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