83rd Annual

: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere

12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere

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Saturday, 8 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Saturday, 8 February 2003


SAT 8 FEB

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Saturday, 8 February 2003


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Saturday, 8 February 2003


Conference Registration*

Sunday, 9 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Sunday, 9 February 2003


SUN 9 FEB

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 9 February 2003


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 9 February 2003


Conference Registration

Monday, 10 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Monday, 10 February 2003


MON 10 FEB

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February)

9:00 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 10 February 2003


1
Tropical Atlantic coupled variability
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
Organizer: Tom Delworth, NOAA/GFDL

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
Observational basis for air-sea interaction in the tropical Atlantic
James A. Carton, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Grodsky

  9:30 AM
1.2
Observing and modeling tropical Atlantic atmosphere-ocean interaction
Yochanan Kushnir, Columbia Universtiy, Palisades, NY; and R. Seager and J. C. H. Chiang

  10:00 AM
1.3
The interaction of coupled ocean-atmosphere variability in the Atlantic and the Pacific
Richard Kleeman, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and S. Raynaud

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 10 February 2003


Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

10:45 AM-2:15 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


2
extratropical atmosphere-ocean interaction
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
Organizers: Yochanan Kushnir, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; Niklas Schneider, IPRC/University of Hawaii

Papers:
  10:45 AM
2.1
The Atlantic thermohaline circulation and climate
Thomas L. Delworth, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ

  11:15 AM
2.2
Pacific Decadal Air Sea Interaction
Niklas Schneider, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA

  11:45 AM
2.3
Nonlinear NAO responses to the North Atlantic SST tripole
Shiling Peng, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson and S. Li

  12:00 PM
2.4
Revisiting the effects of surface fluxes on rapid marine cyclogenesis
Wendell A. Nuss, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. K. Miller

Poster PDF (246.6 kB)
  12:15 PM
2.5
Impact of sea spray on numerical simulation of extratropical hurricanes
Weibiao Li, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie, E. L. Andreas, J. Gyakum, and R. McTaggart-Cowan

Poster PDF (296.9 kB)
  12:30 PM
2.6
Investigation of 2–3 Feb 1998 California extratropical storm using COAMPSTM
Brian J. Gaudet, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. M. Schmidt

Poster PDF (1000.7 kB)
  12:45 PM
2.7
A proposed mechanism for the regulation of minimum mid-tropospheric temperatures in the Arctic
T. N. Chase, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and B. Herman, R. A. Pielke Sr., X. Zeng, M. Tsukernik, and M. Leuthold

  1:00 PM
Lunch Break

2:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


Poster Session 1
Extratropical Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere

Papers:
 
Air-Sea Interaction Processes in Warm and Cold Sectors of Extratropical Cyclonic Storms Observed During FASTEX
Ola P. G. Persson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. E. Hare, C. W. Fairall, and W. D. Otto

Poster PDF (378.4 kB)
 
P1.2
Identification of intra-annual regime shifts over the North Atlantic and their impact on air-sea fluxes over the basin

 
Improved modeling of east Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean mid latitude cyclones
Bruce W. Buckley, Bureau of Meteorology, West Perth, WA, Australia; and L. M. Leslie

 
Interactions between the GEM atmospheric model and an ice-ocean model of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Pierre Pellerin, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and H. Ritchie, F. Saucier, and F. Roy

Poster PDF (48.2 kB)

Poster Session 2
Tropical Atlantic Coupled Variability
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere

Papers:
 
P2.1
Atmospheric Response to Tropical Atlantic SST Anomalies: Role of Planetary Boundary Layer Adjustment

 
Effect of climatological ITCZ on interhemispheric coherence of climate variability
Hideki Okajima, SOEST, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie and A. Numaguti

 
Modeling Climate Variability in Tropical Atlantic Atmosphere
Jiande Wang, COLA, Calverton, MD; and J. A. Carton

Poster PDF (583.3 kB)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


3
Part 1: Air-sea Fluxes and interfacial processes
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
Organizer: Hemantha W. Wijesekera, Oregon State University

Papers:
  4:00 PM
3.1
Bulk Parameterization of Air-Sea Fluxes: Updates and Verification for the COARE Algorithm
C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and E. F. Bradley, J. E. Hare, A. A. Grachev, and J. B. Edson

  4:30 PM
3.2
The Performance of Sea Surface Turbulent Flux Algorithms Over the Global Oceans
Michael A. Brunke, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. W. Fairall, X. Zeng, L. Eymard, and J. A. Curry

Poster PDF (695.5 kB)
  4:45 PM
3.3
Evaluation and Improvement of Bulk Aerodynamic Algorithms at High Wind Speeds
Brenda L. Mulac, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Curry

  5:15 PM
3.5
Parameterization of Wind Gustiness for the Computation of Ocean Surface Fluxes at Different Spatial Scales
Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and Q. Zhang, D. Johnson, and W. -. K. Tao

Poster PDF (108.8 kB)

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


Sessions End for the Day

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

Tuesday, 11 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


TUE 11 FEB

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


4
Part 2: Air-sea Fluxes and interfacial processes
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
Organizer: Michael A. Brunke, University of Arizona

Papers:
  8:30 AM
4.1
On the spatial and temporal variability of waves and fluxes
William Drennan, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and H. Graber and M. Donelan

  8:45 AM
4.2
Variability of Marine Surface Fluxes over Shoaling Waves Measured with Air-Sea Interaction Spar Buoys
Hans C. Graber, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and M. A. Donelan and W. M. Drennan

  9:00 AM
4.3
Study of Drag Coefficient as a Function of Atmospheric Turbulence and Ocean Wave State
Tamara K. Grimmett, NOAA/ERL, Idaho Falls, ID; and G. H. Crescenti, T. L. Crawford, and D. C. Vandemark

Poster PDF (478.6 kB)

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


Poster Session 3
Air-Sea Fluxes and Interfacial Processes
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere

Papers:
 
Air-sea fluxes in NCEP's global forecast system
Glenn H. White, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD

Poster PDF (881.0 kB)
 
Energy balance over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean
Amauri P. Oliveira, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and J. E. Hare, A. A. Grachev, J. Soares, S. A. Bacellar, A. J. Machado, and A. M. Espinosa

Poster PDF (79.0 kB)
 
Sea surface roughness: high winds and short fetches
Peter K. Taylor, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; and M. J. Yelland

Poster PDF (224.1 kB)
 
Version 2 Goddard Satellite-Based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF-2)
Shu-Hsien Chou, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. Nelkin, J. Ardizzone, R. M. Atlas, and C. L. Shie


Joint Poster Session 3
Air-Sea Interaction and the Water Cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and 12th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate )

Papers:
 
The Air-Sea Moisture Transfer Coefficient for Wind Speed from 0 to 20 ms-1
C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and E. F. Bradley and J. B. Edson

Poster PDF (323.5 kB)
 
Decadal salinity changes in the California Current
Niklas Schneider, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and E. Di Lorenzo and P. P. Niiler

 
On the enhancement of evaporation from a large northern lake by the entrainment of warm, dry air
Peter D. Blanken, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and W. R. Rouse and W. M. Schertzer

 
Variability of freshwater flux derived from satellite data
Masahisa Kubota, Tokai University, Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan; and G. Haruta and Y. Yasuda

Poster PDF (180.9 kB)

Poster Session 4
Monsoon-Ocean Interaction
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere

Papers:
 
Indian Continental Rainfall and Indian Ocean SST
Gabriel A. Vecchi, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison


Poster Session 5
Microscale and Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere

Papers:
 
The effect of model initialised scatterometer data on the prediction of maritime cyclogenesis
Lance M. Leslie, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. S. Speer and R. F. Abbey Jr.

Poster PDF (165.0 kB)
 
Modelling the interactions between Sea Breezes and Valley Breezes
Giovanni Latini, Ancona University, Ancona, Italy; and R. Cocci Grifoni, G. Passerini, and S. Tascini

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)
 
First Look at Wind Stress and Wind Stress Curl along California and Northern Baja California
Darko Koracĭn, DRI, Reno, NV; and C. E. Dorman and R. Sundararajan

Poster PDF (564.4 kB)
 
Application of Land Surface Data Assimilation to Simulations of Sea Breeze Circulations
Scott Mackaro, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. M. Lapenta, R. Suggs, R. McNider, G. Jedlovec, B. Carroll, and K. G. Blackwell

 
A very high resolution simulation of Tropical Storm Allison, June 2001
Bob A. Weinzapfel, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie

http://weather.ou.edu/~bobwein/Allison.html

 
A Study of Air-Sea Interactions, Hurricane Predictive index, and Associated Tropical Storm Barry Over The Gulf of Mexico
Jamese D. Sims, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and J. D. Jones and R. S. Reddy

Poster PDF (98.6 kB)

Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break

11:00 AM-2:43 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


5
Observations of air-sea interaction (in situ and satellite)
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
Organizer: Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ERL/ETL

Papers:
  11:00 AM
5.1
Direct observations of atmospheric boundary layer response to SST variations associated with tropical instability waves over the eastern equatorial Pacific
Hiroshi Hashizume, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and S. P. Xie, M. Fujiwara, M. Shiotani, T. Watanabe, Y. Tanimoto, W. T. Liu, and K. Takeuchi

  11:15 AM
5.2
Estimation of the surface stress in the eye wall of hurricanes using WSR-88D radar data
Steven Businger, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. Marks, P. Dodge, J. A. Businger, and I. Morrison

Poster PDF (742.3 kB)
  11:45 AM
5.4
Meridional Wind and Surface Stress Oscillations in the Marine Boundary Layer Induced by Easterly Waves over the Tropical Pacific
Andrey A. Grachev, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and C. W. Fairall, J. E. Hare, and B. B. Stankov

Poster PDF (559.0 kB)
  12:00 PM
5.5
Pre– and post–sea breeze frontal lines –A meso–ã scale analysis over south Israel
Pinhas Alpert, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; and M. Rabinovich-Hadar

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)
 
5.6
Seasonal and interannual variability in global satellite-derived latent heat fluxes

  12:16 PM
5.7
Skin temperature measurements on small bodies of water
Robert J. Kurzeja, Savannah River Technology Center, Aiken, SC; and M. M. Pendergast

Poster PDF (62.2 kB)
  12:30 PM
5.8
Models for skin-bulk SST differences applied to infrared satellite radiometer data
Lisa A. Horrocks, Met Office, Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and R. W. Saunders, A. C. Stuart-Menteth, I. S. Robinson, T. J. Nightingale, and A. O'Carroll

  12:45 PM
5.9
Momentum and Heat Flux effects on West Florida Shelf temperatures
Jyotika I. Virmani, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and R. He and R. H. Weisberg

  1:00 PM
Scaled temperature spectra in the unstable oceanic surface layer
Hemantha W. Wijesekera, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and C. A. Paulson and E. D. Skyllingstad

Poster PDF (210.5 kB)
 
5.11
Air-Sea Heat Exchange along the Northern Sea Surface Temperature Front in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

  1:15 PM
Heat budget of the California Current from satellite and in situ observations
Kathleen A. Edwards, APL, Seattle, WA; and K. A. Kelly

  1:30 PM
Lunch Break

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30P.M.)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


6
Monsoon-ocean interaction
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
Organizer: Bin Wang, IPRC University of Hawaii

Papers:
  3:30 PM
6.1
The coupled nature of intraseasonal and interannual monsoon variability
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  4:00 PM
6.2
  4:30 PM
6.3
Coupling between northward propagating instraseasonal oscillations and sea-surface temperature in the Indian Ocean
Xiouhua Fu, IPRC, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang, T. Li, and J. McCreary

  4:45 PM
6.4
Role of the Indian Ocean SST anomalies in the coupling of the Atmosphere and Ocean
C. Perigaud, California Institute of Technology/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. J. Neelin and J. McCreary

http://

Poster PDF (31.0 kB)
  5:00 PM
6.5
The coupled monsoon-ocean mode and its impacts on asian-australian monsoon
Bin Wang, IPRC University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Wu and T. Li

  5:15 PM
6.6
Spatial and Temporal Structure of the Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation and its Mechanism
Tim Li, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and P. Liu and B. Wang

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


Sessions End for the Day

Wednesday, 12 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


WED 12 FEB

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Joint Session 10
Water Cycle-Atmospheric Chemistry Linkages(Joint with the 12th Conf on interactions of the sea and atmosphere, 5th Conf on atmospheric chemistry: gases, aerosols, and clouds, and the 17th conference on hydrology)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 17TH Conference on Hydrology; and the 5th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds )

Papers:
  8:30 AM
Design and evaluation of the coupled MM5/TOPLATS modeling system for a Texas air quality exceedance episode
Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. N. McHenry, C. J. Coats Jr., and A. Trayanov

Poster PDF (612.3 kB)
  8:45 AM
Soil moisture effects on gaseous exchanges between the atmosphere and the biosphere
Yihua Wu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Peters-Lidard, R. Dennis, and P. Finklestein

Poster PDF (95.9 kB)
  9:00 AM
Temperature Sensitivity of a Micrometerologically-Based Air-Sea Gas Transfer Parameterization
Jeffrey E. Hare, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and C. W. Fairall, W. R. McGillis, B. Ward, and R. Wanninkhof

Poster PDF (164.8 kB)
  9:15 AM
The role of extratropical storms in air-sea gas transfer
Will Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Zhang and Z. Long

Poster PDF (457.6 kB)

9:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Joint Session 2
Scatterometer Observations of Air-Sea interaction (Joint Session between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere and the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Organizer: Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL

Papers:
  1:30 PM
The Best Winds for Ocean Models??
James J. O'Brien, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Bourassa

Poster PDF (592.8 kB)
  2:00 PM
Satellite Observations of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Over SST Fronts
Dudley B. Chelton, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and S. P. Xie

  2:30 PM
Biological responses of the sea to typhoons
I-I Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and W. T. Liu

Poster PDF (587.0 kB)

1:30 PM-4:15 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


8
Micro–Scale and Mesoscale air-sea interaction
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
Organizer: Pinhas Alpert, Tel-Aviv University

Papers:
  1:30 PM
8.1
LES modeling of the cross-equatorial trade boundary layer along 95W
Simon P. de Szoeke, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. S. Bretherton

  1:45 PM
8.2
Improving landfall forecasts for tropical cyclones moving parallel to the coastline
Bradford S. Barrett, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie

  2:00 PM
8.3
A study of air-sea interactions and associated tropical hurricane activity over Gulf of Mexico using satellite data and numerical modeling
R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and A. Schwartz, P. Remata, J. D. Sims, and R. L. Miller

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
  2:15 PM
8.4
Coastal wind anomalies and their impact on surface fluxes and processes over the Eastern Pacific during summer
Ragothaman Sundararajan, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Koraĉin and M. Tjernström

Poster PDF (113.9 kB)
  2:30 PM
8.5
June gloom and heavy fogs: oceanic influences on bummer California summers
Steve LaDochy, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; and J. Brown and W. Patzert

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)
  2:45 PM
8.6
Mesoscale forcing of ocean waves during Gulf Stream North Wall Events
John A. Okon, NPS, Monterey, CA; and W. A. Nuss

Poster PDF (104.4 kB)
  3:00 PM
8.7
Interaction between atmosphere and ocean–ice regional models over the Gulf of St.Lawrence, Canada
Manon Faucher, Meteorological Service of Canada, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; and D. Caya, F. J. Saucier, and R. Laprise

Poster PDF (810.1 kB)
  3:15 PM
8.8
Westerly flow cold air outbreak over Lake Michigan during Lake-ICE
Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and E. M. Agee

Poster PDF (422.6 kB)
  3:30 PM
8.9
Development of the Land Plume and its Structure during INDOEX (1999)
Matthew Simpson, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman

Poster PDF (284.9 kB)
  3:45 PM
Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30–6:30)

2:30 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Joint Poster Session 2
Scatterometer Observations of Air-Sea Interaction (Joint Poster Session between the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Organizers: Kathryn A. Kelly, University of Washington; Robert A. Brown, University of Washington

Papers:
 
Wind stress in the Oregon and California coastal zone from the QuikSCAT scatterometer and models
Natalie Perlin, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. B. Chelton, R. M. Samelson, and P. L. Barbour

 
Ocean Currents Inferred from Differences Between QuikSCAT and TAO Winds
Kathryn A. Kelly, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Dickinson and G. C. Johnson

 
Online Analysis and Visualization of TRMM and QuikSCAT Products
Zhong Liu, George Mason Univ./CEOSR Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Chiu, W. Teng, and H. Rui

Poster PDF (418.8 kB)
 
QuikSCAT analysis of marine atmospheric fronts
Jérôme Patoux, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. A. Brown

http://pbl.atmos.washington.edu

Poster PDF (971.7 kB)
 
Rich Structures of Cold Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
Shang-Ping Xie, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

 
Sverdrup transport calculation using Satellite scatterometer wind products in the North Pacific
Kunihiro Aoki, Tokai University, Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan; and K. Kutsuwada and D. Fukata

http://

Poster PDF (226.2 kB)
 
Monitoring a Piteraq Storm System Using DMSP Imagery and QuikSCAT Wind Data
Boniface J. Mills, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson

Poster PDF (473.0 kB)
 
Evaluating the Quikscat/Seawinds radar for measuring rainrate over the oceans using collocations with NEXRAD and TRMM
David E. Weissman, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; and M. A. Bourassa and J. Tongue

Poster PDF (248.5 kB)
 
Development of scatterometer–derived research–quality surface pressures for the Southern Ocean
Kyle A. Hilburn, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa and J. J. O'Brien

Poster PDF (258.8 kB)
 
Analysis of midlatitude storms with winds and pressures from QuikSCAT
Robert A. Brown, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Patoux

http://pbl.atmos.washington.edu

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)
 
A Direct Surface Wind Stress Algorithm for the SeaWinds Scatterometer
Mark A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and D. E. Weissman

Poster PDF (195.8 kB)
 
Global pressure fields from scatterometer winds
Jerome Patoux, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. C. Foster and R. A. Brown

http://pbl.atmos.washington.edu

Poster PDF (111.8 kB)

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–7:30P.M.)

3:30 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Joint Session 5
Air-Sea interaction and the water cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and understanding the variability of water in weather and Climate and the 12th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate )
Organizer: Yolande L. Serra, JISAO/Univ. of Washington

Papers:
  3:30 PM
  4:00 PM
A case study of the Intertropical Convergence Zone at the ocean surface with high resolution satellite data
Scott Curtis, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. F. Adler and G. J. Huffman

Poster PDF (46.2 kB)
  4:15 PM
Onset of the 2002 North American Monsoon: Relation to Gulf of California Sea Surface Temperatures
David L. Mitchell, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. C. Ivanova and K. Redmond

Poster PDF (4.0 MB)
  4:30 PM
  4:45 PM
Precipitation and freshwater lens formation in the tropical western Pacific
Jon Schrage, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and C. A. Clayson

Poster PDF (907.7 kB)
  5:00 PM
Natural and artificial rain enhancement by sea spray
Ronen Lahav, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and D. Rosenfeld

Poster PDF (217.9 kB)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Joint Poster Session 4
Air-Sea and QuikSCAT Applications (Joint Poster Session between 12 Conference on Satellite Meteorology and 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere )
Organizer: Frank M. Monaldo, Johns Hopkins University APL

Papers:
 
Use of Quik Scat imagery in the diagnosis and detection of Gulf of Tehuantepec wind events 1999–2002
Hugh D. Cobb III, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC, Miami, FL; and D. P. Brown and R. Molleda

Poster PDF (55.2 kB)
 
QuikSCAT Satellite Comparisons with Near-Shore Buoy Wind Data off the US West Coast
Mark H. Pickett, NOAA/Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, Pacific Grove, CA; and W. Tang, L. K. Rosenfeld, and C. H. Wash

 
Quikscat spatial resolution and Pacific Ocean model results
Eric C. Hackert, ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. M. Tse and T. J. Busalacchi

 
Wind and sea surface pressure fields from the SeaWinds scatterometer and their impacts in NWP
Shannon R. Davis, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa, R. M. Atlas, J. Ardizzone, E. Brin, D. Bungato, and J. J. O'Brien

Poster PDF (201.7 kB)
 
JP4.5
Scatterometer-based correction of forecast-model coastal winds

 
Improved quality control for QuikSCAT near real-time data
S. Mark Leidner, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and R. N. Hoffman and M. C. Cerniglia

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)
 
Operational Use of QuikSCAT winds in NCEP GDAS
T.-W Yu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Washington, DC

Poster PDF (241.6 kB)
 
QuikSCAT SeaWinds ocean surface wind processing and distribution
Lei Shi, SeaSpace Corporation, Poway, CA; and R. L. Bernstein

Poster PDF (507.6 kB)
 
Results of QuikScat high wind data validation
Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz

 
Normalized radar cross-section (NRCS) patterns from QuikSCAT—A new analysis tool over the tropical oceans
Roger T. Edson, Anteon Corporation and Univ. of Guam, Mangilao, Guam; and P. S. Chang

Poster PDF (217.0 kB)
 
Validation of QSCAT Vector Winds with Air-Sea Interaction Spar
Hans C. Graber, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and M. Caruso, V. J. Cardone, and M. A. Donelan

 
Change of the brightness temeprature in the microwave region due to the relative wind direction
Masanori Konda, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and A. Shibata

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)
 
Variability of skin - bulk sea surface temperature difference
Stephen Hallsworth, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Mid Lothian, United Kingdom

 
Finding the true temperature of the ocean surface
Elizabeth C. Kent, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; and A. Kaplan and P. K. Taylor

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)
 
A global study of diurnal warming using satellite derived sea surface temperature
A. C. Stuart-Menteth, School of Ocean & Earth Science, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; and I. S. Robinson and P. G. Challenor

 
Accuracy of satellite derived latent heat flux
Hiroyuki Tomita, Tokai Univ., Shizuoka, Japan; and M. Kubota

Poster PDF (515.4 kB)
 
High resolution satellite-derived surface turbulent fluxes over the global ocean
Abderrahim Bentamy, IFREMER, Plouzane, France; and J. F. Piolle and A. M. Nunez

 
Improving merchant ship air temperatures using an analytical model of heating errors
David I. Berry, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; and E. C. Kent and P. K. Taylor

Poster PDF (632.0 kB)
 
Assessing Ocean Buoy Shortwave Observations using Clear-Sky Model Calculations
Duane E. Waliser, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and M. Medovaya, R. A. Weller, and M. McPhaden

http://terra.msrc.sunysb.edu

Poster PDF (12.1 kB)

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Sessions End for the Day

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 13 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


THUR 13 FEB

8:30 AM-2:15 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


9
RED SEAS Experiments
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
Organizer: Kenneth D. Anderson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center

Papers:
  8:30 AM
9.1
Air-sea interaction effects on microwave propagation over the sea during the rough evaporation duct (RED) Experiment
Kenneth D. Anderson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, CA; and P. Frederickson and E. Terrill

http://sunspot.spawar.navy.mil/red

Poster PDF (337.6 kB)
  8:45 AM
9.2
EM Propagation Over the ocean: Analysis of RED Experiment Data
Tihomir Hristov, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and C. Friehe

Poster PDF (155.2 kB)
  9:00 AM
9.3
Air-sea interaction processes observed from buoy and propagation measurements during the RED Experiment
Paul A. Frederickson, NPS, Monterey, CA; and K. L. Davidson, K. D. Anderson, S. M. Doss-Hammel, and D. Tsintikidis

Poster PDF (495.5 kB)
  9:15 AM
9.4
Evaluation of coarse mode sea-salt flux parameterizations through shipboard eddy-correlation methods coupled with vertical profile data
Jeffrey S. Reid, NRL/SPAWAR Systems center, Montery, CA; and B. Brooks, H. H. Jonsson, T. Hirstov, K. A. Anderson, and E. A. Reid

Poster PDF (217.8 kB)
  9:30 AM
9.5
Airborne measurements of wave breaking in RED - kinematics and statistics
W. Kendall Melville, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and P. Matusov and E. Terrill

  9:45 AM
9.6
Aerosols, bubbles and sea spray production studies during the RED experiments
Gerrit De Leeuw, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory, The Hague, Netherlands; and M. Moerman, L. Cohen, B. Brooks, M. Smith, and E. Vignati

Poster PDF (586.4 kB)
  10:00 AM
9.7
Marine Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Structure and Air-Sea Fluxes Under Moderate Trade Winds Regime
Djamal Khelif, University of California, Irvine, CA; and C. A. Friehe

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
  10:15 AM
9.8
Infrared Propagation in the Marine Atmospheric Surface Layer: Extinction and Refraction
Dimitri Tsintikidis, SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, CA; and S. M. Doss-Hammel, P. A. Frederickson, and K. L. Davidson

Poster PDF (391.2 kB)
  10:30 AM
9.9
Speciation of Organic Aerosols and their Relationship to Light Scattering during RED
Kathleen K. Crahan, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. A. Hegg, D. S. C. overt, and H. Jonsson

Poster PDF (62.8 kB)
  10:45 AM
Passive polarimetric remote sensing of the sea surface during RED: Comparison of microwave radiometric signatures with air-sea interaction measurements
Steven C. Reising, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and J. Pons, W. E. Asher, A. Camps, and N. Duffo

  11:00 AM
Sea-salt size-distributions from breaking waves: implications for marine aerosol production and optical extinction measurements during SEAS
Antony Clarke, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and V. Kapustin, S. Howell, K. Moore, B. Lienert, S. Masonis, T. Anderson, D. Covert, K. Shifrin, and I. Zolotov

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)
  11:15 AM
Lidar Observed Scattering Fields Over Bellows Beach, Oahu During the SEAS Experiment
John N. Porter, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Lienert, S. K. Sharma, and E. Lau

  11:30 AM
  11:45 AM
Formal poster viewing session with coffee break

  1:00 PM
Lunch Break

9:00 AM-9:00 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Joint Poster Session 1
ENSO and Global-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling (Joint with the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Papers:
 
Tropical Ocean Recharge Mechanism for Climate Variability: A Unified Theory for Decadal and ENSO Modes
Xiaochun Wang, JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and F. F. Jin, Y. Wang, and Y. Chao

 
The nonlinear ENSO mode and its interdecadal changes
Aiming Wu, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)
 
MJO forecast with the NCEP MRF model: Necessity of the inclusion of an interactive ocean
Wanqiu Wang, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Saha and R. Kistler

 
Large-Scale Characteristics Associated with Spring Heavy Rain Events over Taiwan in the Warm and Non-warm Episodes
Zhihong Jiang, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and G. T. J. Chen and M. C. Wu

Poster PDF (84.6 kB)
 
A null hypothesis of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Matthew Newman, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO

 
A Near-Annual Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Mode in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean
Soon-Il An, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. F. Jin, J. S. Kug, and I. S. Kang

Poster PDF (629.4 kB)

Poster Session 6
Red Seas Experiments and Active Remote Sensing of Air-Sea Interaction
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere

Papers:
 
The use of kite observations to study air–sea interaction– controlled atmospheric surface layer profiles during the RED Experiment
Kenneth L. Davidson, NPS, Monterey, CA; and P. S. Guest, D. L. Mabey, P. A. Frederickson, K. D. Anderson, S. M. Doss-Hammel, and D. Tsintikidis

Poster PDF (705.4 kB)
 
The Retrieval of the Horizontal Profile of the Aerosol Particle Size Distribution from Lidar Data
Ilia G. Zolotov, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and K. Shifrin

Poster PDF (345.7 kB)
 
The contribution of coastal aerosol from breaking waves to visible and IR light–extinction over a 10km optical path during RED
Anthony Clarke, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and V. Kapustin, S. Howell, and K. Moore

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)
 
P6.4
Sea spray aerosol fluxes measured on R/P FLIP during the RED project

 
Near-Surface Scintillation in the Marine Atmospheric Layer during the RED Field Campaign
Stephen M. Doss-Hammel, SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, CA; and D. Tsintikidis, P. A. Frederickson, and K. L. Davidson

Poster PDF (233.9 kB)
 
Near real time measurement of sea-salt aerosol during the SEAS campaign: Comparison of emission based sodium detection with an aerosol volatility technique
A. J. Hynes, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. Campuzano-Jost, H. Maring, C. D. Clark, D. S. Covert, S. Howell, V. Kapustin, A. Clarke, and E. S. Saltzman

Poster PDF (334.3 kB)
 
Flux–profile relations over the open ocean
Carl A. Friehe, University of California, Irvine, CA; and T. Hristov

Poster PDF (204.6 kB)
 
EDDY CORRELATION MEASUREMENTS OF THE PRIMARY MARINE AEROSOL SOURCE
E. D. Nilsson, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; and M. Mårtensson, S. van Ekeren, G. de Leeuw, M. Moerman, C. O'Dowd, R. Flanagan, and M. Geever

 
Characterizing bubble and surface wave processes during the Rough Evaporation Duct Experimement
Eric J. Terrill, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla,, CA; and W. K. Melville

 
Estimating underwater acoustical parameters from space-based synthetic aperture radar imagery
Dan L. Hutt, Defence R&D Canada - Atlantic, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and P. W. Vachon

Poster PDF (410.4 kB)

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-4:15 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


10
Active Remote Sensing of air-sea interaction
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
Organizer: Todd D. Sikora, United States Naval Academy

Papers:
  1:30 PM
Monitoring Surface Wind Structure with Spaceborne SAR: development of a SAR user Guide
Robert C. Beal, SSARGASSO Associates, Ellicott City, MD

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/sar/stormwatch/user_guide/

Poster PDF (661.9 kB)
  2:00 PM
SAR Measurement of two dimensional Sea Surface Elevation Fields on a global Scale
Susanne Lehner, German Aerospace Center, Remote Sensing Technology Center, Wessling, Germany; and J. Schulz-Stellenfleth, J. C. Nieto Borge, and W. Rosenthal

  2:15 PM
SAR measurement of mesoscale wind fields on a global scale
Jochen Horstmann, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; and S. Tobias, W. Koch, and S. Lehner

  2:30 PM
Automated estimation of wind vectors from SAR
Christopher C. Wackerman, Veridian Systems Division, Ann Arbor, MI; and W. G. Pichel and P. Clemente-Colon

Poster PDF (152.7 kB)
  2:45 PM
Wind fields derived from SAR during storm conditions
William Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and P. Vachon and B. Toulany

  3:00 PM
Critical examination of a method for estimating the buoyancy flux from SAR imagery
Ralph C. Foster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Wyant and T. D. Sikora

  3:15 PM
A comparison of model output with SAR imagery of a polar low over the Labrador Sea
Rebekah Martin, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore and P. Vachon

  3:30 PM
  3:45 PM
Coffee Break in exhibit hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:00)

2:15 PM-2:45 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


11
General Sessions
Sponsor: 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere

Papers:
  2:15 PM
Sea fog off the California Coast: Historical perspective and climatology
John Lewis, NOAA/NSSL and DRI, Norman, OK; and D. Koracin and K. Redmond

Poster PDF (47.5 kB)
  2:30 PM
Why did the Pentagon Become Interested in Polar Warming?
Ronald E. Doel, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.)

3:30 PM-5:45 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Joint Session 1
ENSO and Global-scale atmosphere-ocean coupling (Joint with the 14th Symposium on Global Change & Climate Variations and the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere )
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Papers:
  3:30 PM
Will Global warming Induce a Permanent El Nino? (It has happened before!)
George Philander, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

  4:00 PM
Linkages between El Niño and Recent Tropical Warming
Fei-Fei Jin, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. -. I. An, A. Timmermann, and J. Zhao

Poster PDF (698.2 kB)
  4:15 PM
  4:30 PM
Tropical precipitation anomalies: ENSO teleconnections vs. global warming
J. David Neelin, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and H. Su and C. Chou

  4:45 PM
Surface Stress Balance in the Tropics
Matthias Munnich, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. Neelin

  5:00 PM
The impact of ENSO on the North Pacific Ocean during summer
Michael A. Alexander, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Scott

  5:15 PM
Ocean-atmosphere interaction within equatorially trapped atmospheric waves
George N. Kiladis, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and K. H. Straub

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)
  5:30 PM
Conference ends

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)


Conference Ends

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Simpsons Banquet

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific