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[ Program ]

The program will consist of overview lectures (1 hour), contributed talks (20 minutes), and posters. The Banquet, on the evening of November 5th, will feature Edward Lorenz as the keynote speaker. All talks are being held in Sharp Lecture Hall (155 Arms). Poster Sessions are in Winnett Lounge. Note: maximum poster size is 3 feet high x 5 feet wide.

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Thursday, November 4
8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 am Outstanding Questions in Global Circulation Theory
Isaac Held, Princeton University, GFDL/NOAA, Princeton, NJ
9:30 am Challenges to Global Circulation Theory Posed by Records of Paleo-Climate
Richard Seager, Columbia Univ., Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am The Atmospheric General Circulation in the "Ice-House" Regime
Richard Peltier, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; and M. Stastna, and G. Vettoretti
11:20 am Tropospheric Moisture, Surface Fluxes, and Cloud-Radiation Interactions: A Framework for Understanding Large-Scale Tropical Circulations
David Raymond, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
11:40 am Nonlinear Thermally Forced Circulations in Three Dimensions
Timothy Dunkerton, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA
Noon Lunch
2:00 pm A DARE Approach for 3D Cloud Resolving Simulations of Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulations
Zhiming Kuang, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. Blossey, and C. Bretherton
2:20 pm Effects of El Niño/Southern Oscillation and of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Global Circulation
George Kiladis, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO
2:40 pm Analysis of the "Shallow Circulation" in the East Pacific
David Nolan, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang
3:00 pm Interaction between the Brewer-Dobson Circulation and the Hadley Circulation
Murry Salby, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Callaghan
3:20 pm Coffee Break
3:50 pm Convection and Large-Scale Circulations in the Tropics: I. Quasi-Equilibrium Dynamics
Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA
4:50 pm Convection and Large-Scale Circulations in the Tropics: II. Simple Models for Tropical Precipitation and Surface Wind, Given the SST - a Critical Review
Adam Sobel, Columbia Univ., New York, NY
5:30 pm Reception and Poster Session 1
(Winnett Lounge)
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Friday, November 5
8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 am Dynamics of Monsoons
Alan Plumb, MIT, Cambridge, MA
9:30 am Moist Dynamics of Tropical Convection Zones in Monsoons, Teleconnections, and Global Warming
David Neelin, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Dynamical Questions Raised by High-frequency Seasonal Cycle Features
Brian Mapes, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
11:20 am A Unified Perspective on the Dynamics of Axisymmetric Monsoons and Hurricanes
Volkmar Wirth, Univ. of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; and T. Dunkerton
11:40 am Subtropical Rossby Wave Breaking: Impact on Convection and Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor
Darryn Waugh, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD

12:00 pm

Pacific Subtropical Highs: Features Interacting with Midlatitude and Tropical Forcing
Richard Grotjahn, UC Davis, Davis, CA
Noon Lunch
2:00 pm Challenges in Numerical Modeling of Tropical Circulations
Chris Bretherton, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
3:00 pm Eddy-Mediated Connections between Low-Latitudes and the Extratropics
Walter Robinson, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
4:00 pm Coffee Break
Poster Session 2
(Winnett Lounge)
6:00 pm Banquet (Athenaeum)
Global Circulation Theories in History
Edward Lorenz, MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Saturday, November 6
8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 am Large-Scale Transport of Water Vapor
Raymond Pierrehumbert, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL
9:30 am Low-Frequency Variability of Storm Tracks
Kyle Swanson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Interannual Variations of the Pacific Storm Track - How Much Do We Know? How Much Do We Understand?
Edmund Chang, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
11:20 am Baroclinic Multiple Zonal Jets on the Sphere
Sukyoung Lee, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA
11:40 am A Diagnostic and Dynamical Study of the Mid-Winter Minimum of the Pacific Storm Track
Mankin Mak, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; and Y. Deng
12:00 pm Nonlinear Reflection of Planetary Waves
Gudrun Magnusdottir, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
12:20 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Theories of Baroclinic Eddy Equilibration
Richard Lindzen, MIT, Cambridge, MA
3:00 pm The Thermal Structure of the Extratropical Troposphere
Tapio Schneider, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
3:40 pm Coffee Break
4:10 pm Moist Baroclinic Modes, Downdraft Width, and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and D. Frierson
4:30 pm Sources and Sinks of Available Potential Energy in a Moist Atmosphere
Olivier Pauluis, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
4:50 pm Extratropical Control of Subtropical Humidity: Diagnosis Using Tracers of Last Saturation
Joseph Galewsky, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and A. Sobel and I. Held
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Poster Session 1 (Thursday, 5:30 pm)
Has the Hadley Cell Strengthened during the Last Several Decades?
Christos Mitas, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and A. Clement
Evidence for a Widening of the Hadley Cell Over the Past 40 Years
Thomas Reichler, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and I. Held
The Influence of Cross-Equatorial Mean Meridional Flow
Ian Kraucunas, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Influences of Baroclinic Eddies on the Strength of the Hadley Cell
Christopher Walker, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider
Material Transport from the Tropics to the Midlatitudes via Seasonal Mean Flows
Jai Sukhatme, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Atmospheric Meridional Water Transport and Its Effect on the THC in Simple Models
Eli Tziperman, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and H. Gildor
Global Occurrences of Extreme Precipitation and the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Observations and Predictability
Charles Jones, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and D. Waliser, K. Lau, and W. Stern
Response of a Symmetric Circulation to Aerosol Radiative Forcing
Peng Xian, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and R. Miller
An Atmospheric Bridge Mechanism for High Latitude Ice Influence on the Marine Intertropical Convergence Zone
J. Chiang, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and C. Bitz
A New Idea on What Drives the Annual Cycle in Tropical Tropopause Temperatures
Warwick Norton, Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK
ITCZ Breakdown: An Observational Study over the Tropical East Pacific
Chia-chi Wang, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir
On the Influence of African and South American Climate on the Atlantic ITCZ
Michela Biasutti, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY
Variability of Vertical Shear within the Tropical Atlantic
Anantha Aiyyer, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. Thorncroft
On the Importance of Momentum Conservation in the Representation of Wave Drag in Atmospheric Circulation Models
Tiffany Shaw, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; and T. Shepherd
Is the Solar Influence on the Lower Atmosphere Associated with a Global Circulation?
Katie Coughlin, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K.-K. Tung
A Very Large, Spontaneous Stratospheric Sudden Warming in a Simple
AGCM: a Prototype for the Southern-Hemisphere Warming of 2002?

Paul Kushner, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; and L. Polvani
Can Variations of Convection and Circulation in the Tropics and Subtropics Play a Role in the Natural Variability of the Antarctic Ozone?
Leila Vespoli de Carvalho, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil and UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and C. Jones
On the Thermal Structure of the Tropical Atmosphere as Observed from Different Remote Sensing Instruments
M. de la Torre Juárez, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. M. Schrøder
The Annual Cycle of Polar Stratospheric Temperatures, and the Evolution of Polar Stratospheric Thermal Fluctuations as Observed from GPS Radio Occultations
M. de la Torre Juárez, JPL, Pasadena, CA
On the Use of Atmospheric Radio Occultations for Understanding the General Circulation of the Atmosphere
A. Mannucci, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. Ao, G. Hajj, B. Iijima, M. de la Torre Juárez, T. Meehan, and T. Schrøder

Interannual Variability of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation and Total Column Ozone
Xun Jiang, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and R-L Shia, C. D. Camp, and Y. Yung

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Poster Session 2 (Friday, 4:00 pm)
The Response of Westerly Jets to Thermal Driving in a Primitive Equation Model
Seok-Woo Son, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. Lee
Sensitivity of Jet Latitude to the Surface Friction
Gang Chen, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and I. Held
A Linear Model of Extratropical Weekly Variability
Matthew Newman, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Sardeshmukh
Analysis of Low Frequency Variability in a Dry General Circulation Model
Edwin Gerber, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and G. Vallis
The Atmosphere Circulation Contribution of the Seasonal Cycle of Northern Hemisphere Surface Air Temperature Anomalies
Qigang Wu, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD; and D. Straus
Low Frequency Dynamics in Zonally Varying Flow: Linear Instability and Nonlinear Equilibration
Daniel Hodyss, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and T. R. Nathan
On the Connection between Coherent Structures and Low-Frequency Wave Packets in Large-Scale Atmospheric Flow
Daniel Hodyss, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and T. R. Nathan
Extratropical Low-Frequency Variability in an Idealized Atmospheric Model
K. Dethloff, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany; and D. Handorf, M. Kurgansky, M. Sempf, and A. Weisheimer
Observations of Nonlinear Planetary Wave Reflection in the Troposphere
John Abatzoglou, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir
Potential Vorticity Homogenization and the Extratropical Tropopause
Thomas Birner, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany
The Extratropical Tropopause Inversion
Thomas Birner, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany
On the Meridional Circulation in the Troposphere and Stratosphere - Simple GCM Experiments
G. Schmitz, Univ. Rostock, Kühlungsborn, Germany; and E. Becker
The Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Turbulence
Richard Scott; NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. Dunkerton
Scaling Baroclinic Eddy Fluxes
Andrew Thompson, Scripps/UCSD, La Jolla, CA; and W. Young
Maintenance of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Atmospheric Circulation in Observations and CCSM3 Simulations
Eric DeWeaver, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Studies of the Moist General Circulation with a Simplified Moist GCM
Dargan Frierson, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and I. Held, P. Zurita-Gotor, and O. Pauluis
Isentropic Description of the Atmospheric Moisture Budget
Karen Smith, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and T. Schneider

Observations of Extratropical Precipitating Convection
Adrian McDonald, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand; and D. Hooper, E. Pavelein, and T. Carey-Smith

Feedbacks from Artic Sea Ice Concentration Anomalies onto the Atmospheric Circulation
Leah Ray Necas, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir
A Simple Two-Zone Model of the Atmospheric Circulation over the Hemisphere
M. Kurgansky, Univ. of Concepcion, Chile, and A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, Russia
A Vortex Street Model for Self-Organized Forced Dissipative Turbulent Flows in a Quasi-Geostrophic Two-Layer Channel on an f-Plane
H. Borth, Univ. of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; and V. M. Gryanik and D. Olbers

The Limiting Form of Three-Dimensional Inertial Instability
Stephen Griffiths, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

The N-vortex Problem on a Rotating Sphere
P. Newton, USC, Los Angeles, CA

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The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere Conference 2004 is being hosted by the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences and the Division of Engineering and Applied Science of the California Institute of Technology and is supported by the Davidow Research Fund and by the National Science Foundation.

Organizers: Tapio Schneider (Caltech) and Adam Sobel (Columbia); assistant, Nora Oshima.

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last update: October 29, 2004