Session 1B |
| | Tropical Waves And Instabilities I (Parallel with Sessions 1A and 1C) [This session will be dedicated to the memory of Dr. Yoshikazu Hayashi, GFDL] |
| | Organizer: Joseph A. Zehnder, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| 10:15 AM | 1B.1 | **Water vapor anomoly tropical wave tracing
Paul E. Roundy, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA |
| 10:30 AM | 1B.2 | **The Energetics of the African Easterly Wave Life Cycle: A Case Study
Lourdes B. Avilés, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL |
| 10:45 AM | 1B.3 | Role of easterly wave in the maintenance of the easterly jet
Rosana Nieto Ferreira, NASA/GSFC and USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez and J. T. Bacmeister |
| 11:00 AM | 1B.4 | The dynamics of the African Easterly Jet. Part II: GCM simulations
Julio T. Bacmeister, USRA, Seabrook, MD; and M. J. Suarez and R. N. Ferreira |
| 11:15 AM | 1B.5 | **Space-time spectra of westward-propagating synoptic-scale disturbances in the ITCZ
Guojun Gu, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL |
| 11:30 AM | 1B.6 | Potential vorticity structure and evolution in African Easterly Waves
Michael C. Morgan, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. A. Postel |
| 11:45 AM | 1B.7 | Idealized modeling of Tropical easterly disturbances
Anantha R. Aiyyer, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. Molinari |