Session 1: What determines the width of the tropical belt?

Tuesday, July 28, 2015: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Primary Convener:  Thomas Birner, CO State Univ-Atmospheric Sci, Fort Collins, CO, United States
8:30 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Sean M Davis, NOAA Boulder, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
8:45 AM
What determines the width of the tropical belt? (Invited) (37435)
Isaac Held, NOAA, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
9:25 AM
On the Dynamics of the Hadley Circulation and Subtropical Drying (37411)
Kristopher B Karnauskas, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Caroline Ummenhofer, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
9:45 AM
A Climate Model Grid Size Bias in the Width of the Tropical Belt (37416)
Nicholas Davis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Thomas Birner, CO State Univ-Atmospheric Sci, Fort Collins, CO, United States
10:05 AM
Understanding the Causes of Southern Hemisphere Tropical Expansion (37486)
Christopher Lucas, Hanh Nguyen and Bertrand Timbal, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia
10:25 AM
Break
10:40 AM
Investigating dynamical mechanisms behind tropical widening (37476)
Paul Staten, Indiana University Bloomington, Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, Thomas Reichler, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Jian Lu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
11:00 AM
Role of Changes in Mean Temperatures vs. Temperature Gradients in the Recent Widening of the Hadley Circulation (37413)
Ori Adam, ETH Zürich, Geological Institute - Climate Dynamics, Zürich, Switzerland, Nili Harnik, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel and Tapio Schneider, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
11:20 AM
High, Tropical Cirrus Clouds as Indicators of the Tropical Belt Extent and Changes (37452)
Melody A Avery1, Mark R Schoeberl2, Mark A. Vaughan1, Eric J Jensen3, Charles R Trepte1, Jayanta Kar4, Yongxiang Hu1, Stuart A Young5, Troy D Thornberry6 and Andrew W Rollins7, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia, (6)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
11:40 AM
Widening of the Cold Point Tropopause and Implications for Stratospheric Composition (37470)
Susann Tegtmeier, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Viktoria Mohr, University of Hohenheim, Institute for Physics and Meteorology, Hohenheim, Germany and Kirstin Krüger, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
 
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