Session 4 Dynamics, transport, and mixing

Tuesday, 11 January 2000: 8:30 AM-2:15 PM
Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere
Organizers:
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA and Gloria Manney, JPL, Pasadena, CA

Papers:
8:30 AM
4.1
Planetary Wave Interactions in the Antarctic Stratosphere
Mark Harvey, Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia

8:45 AM
4.2
Observed 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 AM
4.3
Saturation of vertically propagating Rossby waves
Constantine Giannitsis, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen

9:15 AM
4.4
Westward Traveling Hemispheric Modes and Modes in a Continuous Spectrum of Atmospheric Oscillations
Boris E. Stepanov, Novosibirsk State Technical Univ., Novosibirsk, Russia

9:30 AM
4.5
A 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 AM
4.6
Inertially Unstable Temperature Structures in the Middle Atmosphere: A Re-examination
John A. Knox, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN

10:00 AM
4.6a
Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m.)

10:30 AM
4.6b
WALTER 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 AM
4.6c
WMO 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 PM
4.6d
Conference Luncheon (Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Silver Spring, MD)

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