Workshop on Large-Scale Circulations in Moist Convecting Atmospheres
October 16 - 17, 2009
Organizers: Zhiming Kuang, Kerry Emanuel
Sponsors: Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard Physical Oceanography Committee
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Larissa Back, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
A toy model for understanding the observed relationship between column-integrated water vapor and tropical precipitation |
William Boos, Harvard University |
Mechanisms of poleward propagating, intraseasonal convective anomalies in a cloud-system resolving model |
Chris Bretherton, University of Washington |
The interaction of SST, low-level convergence and rainfall over the tropical oceans |
Steve Derbyshire, Met Office |
From "dynamical thinking" to parametrization progress? |
Kerry Emanuel, MIT |
Aggregated convection and the regulation of tropical climate |
Dragan Frierson, University of Washington |
CCKWs and the MJO in a hierarchy of GCMs |
Ċ½eljka Fuchs, University of Split |
Convectively coupled gravity waves and moisture
modes |
Dennis Hartmann, University of Washington |
Tropical clouds and cloud feedback |
Isaac Held, NOAA |
Energy balance constraints on the tropical climate |
George Kiladis, NOAA |
Forcing of convectively coupled Kelvin waves by extratropical wave activity |
Zhiming Kuang, Harvard |
Large-scale organizations of transient variabilities in tropical deep convection |
Eric Maloney, Colorado State University |
Aquaplanet simulations of the MJO: The importance of wind-evaporation feedback and horizontal moisture
advection |
Brian Mapes, University of Miami |
Capturing convection sensitivities in a plume-based algorithm suitable for GCM parameterization |
David Neelin, UCLA |
Deep convection--transition and tails |
David Nolan, University of Miami |
Idealized simulations of the ITCZ
and its multi-level, cross-equatorial circulations |
Olivier Pauluis, New York University |
Water vapor and mechanical work in the atmosphere: comparison between Carnot and steam cycles |
David Raymond, New Mexico Tech |
On moist convective adjustment |
David Romps, Harvard University |
A direct measure of entrainment |
Sharon Sessions, New Mexico Tech |
The relevance of gross moist stabilities in multiple equilibria |
Adam Sobel, Lamond-Doherty Earth Observatory |
The axisymmetric QTCM2 prototype--a survey of recent results |
Stefan Tulich, NOAA |
On the pattern of biases in a regional climate simulation of the tropics |
Chidong Zhang, University of Miami |
Tropical diabatic heating: Its bi-modal ubiquity and its MJO signals |