Information and Schedule
The 7th Northeast Tropical Workshop will be held June 9-12, 2015 at MIT Endicott House in Dedham, MA, outside of Boston. Please plan to arrive in the afternoon/early evening of Tuesday June 9 and depart after lunch on June 12.
Please make sure to read the Workshop Information page, which contains pertinent information for all workshop attendees, including who to contact regarding dietary restrictions. The workshop program is shown below. Be sure to read the Poster Sessions page to see which posters will be presented in the Wednesday evening (Poster Session A) and Thursday evening (Poster Session B) sessions.
Tuesday, June 9
Afternoon: Check-in6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Reception
7:00 PM: Dinner - Dining Room
Wednesday, June 10
8:00am - 9:00am: Breakfast - Dining Room9:00am - 10:30am: Session 1: Tropical Cyclones and Climate I - Brooks Lecture Hall. Session chair: Gabriel Vecchi
- Lance Bosart - Did the Recurvature, Extratropical Transition, and Subsequent Reintensification as an Extratropical Cyclone of Western North Pacific Supertyphoon Nuri Rearrange the Northern Hemisphere Flow Pattern Sufficiently to Trigger 2014–2015 Winter Onset over North America in November 2014?
- Benjamin Moore - Dynamics and predictability of the downstream impacts of the extratropical transition of western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Lupit during late October 2009
- Kerry Emanuel - On the Cause of the Great North Atlantic Hurricane Drought of the Late 20th Century
- Suzana Camargo - Relationship of Tropical Cyclone Size with ENSO
- Allison Wing - Role of radiative-convective feedbacks in tropical cyclogenesis in rotating radiative-convective equilibrium simulations
11:00am - 12:00pm: Discussion of Tropical Cyclones and Climate I - Brooks Lecture Hall
12:00pm - 1:30pm: Lunch - Terrace
1:30pm - 3:00pm: Session 2: Convection - Brooks Lecture Hall. Session chair: Adam Sobel
- Usama Anber - Modeling the Diurnal Cycle in the Amazon using the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation
- Giuseppe Torri - Understanding the life cycle of cold pools with a Lagrangian particle model
- Timothy Cronin - A theory for the growth rates and length scales of convective self-aggregation
- Martin Singh - Moist convection and the Hadley Cell
- Yang Tian - Probing into Responses of Moist Convection to Large-scale Temperature Perturbations Using A Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model: Methods and Validation
3:30pm - 4:45pm: Session 3: Tropical Cyclone Genesis and Environment - Brooks Lecture Hall. Session chair: Kristen Corbosiero
- Brian Tang - Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Spin-up Time and Size to the Initial Entropy Deficit
- Joshua Alland - Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Convection to the Initial Entropy Deficit
- Leon Nguyen - Simulation of the Downshear Reformation of a Tropical Cyclone
- Philippe Papin - Tropical Cyclone Stan’s Interaction Within a Central American Gyre
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Reception and Poster Session A - Gun Room
7:00pm: Dinner - Dining Room
Thursday June 11
8:00am - 9:00am: Breakfast - Dining Room9:00am - 10:30am: Session 4: Tropical Climate - Brooks Lecture Hall. Session chair: Tom Knutson
- Adam Sobel - Is tropical weather less predictable than extratropical? Seamless precipitation prediction skill in two global models.
- Anthony Broccoli - The Response of Tropical Climate to Orbital, Ice Sheet, and Greenhouse Gas Forcing
- Benjamin Lintner - Response of the South Pacific Convergence Zone to imposed circulation and moisture perturbations in an intermediate level complexity model
- Jonathan Woodruff - Lessons Learned from Recent Flood Deposits in the Northeast
- Wei Zhang - The Pacific Meridional Mode and the Occurrence of Tropical Cyclones in the Western North Pacific
11:00am - 12:00pm: Discussion of Tropical Climate - Brooks Lecture Hall
12:00pm - 1:30pm: Lunch - Terrace
1:30pm - 3:00pm: Session 5: Tropical Cyclones and Climate II - Brooks Lecture Hall. Session chair: Anthony Broccoli
- Thomas Knutson - Global projections of intense tropical cyclone activity for the late 21st century from dynamical downscaling of CMIP5/RCP4.5 scenarios
- Timothy Merlis - Surface temperature dependency of tropical cyclone-permitting simulations with uniform thermal forcing
- Gabriel Vecchi - On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity and Simulation and Prediction of Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes in the High-Resolution GFDL HiFLOR Coupled Climate Model
- Hiroyuki Murakami - Investigating the Influence of Anthropogenic Forcing and Natural Variability on the 2014 Hawaiian Hurricane Season
- Benjamin Schenkel - A Climatology of Multiple Tropical Cyclone Events
3:30pm - 4:45pm: Session 6: Tropical Cyclone Intensification - Brooks Lecture Hall. Session chair: John Molinari
- Rosimar Rios-Berrios - Tropical Cyclone Intensification in Sheared Environments: Katia (2011) and Ophelia (2011)
- Stephanie Stevenson - The relationship between lightning activity and intensity changes in tropical cyclones
- Konstantinos Menelaou - On the relative contribution of inertia-gravity wave radiation to asymmetric instabilities in tropical cyclone-like vortices
- Georgina Paull - Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Intensification to Axisymmetric Heat Sources
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Reception and Poster Session B - Gun Room
7:00pm: Dinner - Dining Room
Friday, June 12
7:30am - 8:30am: Breakfast - Dining Room8:30am - 9:45am: Session 7: MJO and Monsoons - Brooks Lecture Hall. Session chair: Zhiming Kuang
- Paul Roundy - MJO Circulation Signals In the Western Hemisphere at Convective Onset over the Indian Ocean
- Naoko Sakaeda - The Intraseasonal Atmospheric Angular Momentum Associated with MJO Convective Initiation
- William Boos - Near-linear response of mean monsoon strength to a broad range of thermal forcings
- Ravi Shekhar - A Comparison of Thermodynamic Constraints on Monsoons in the Presence of Proximal Deserts
10:15am - 11:30am - Session 8: TC Structure - Brooks Lecture Hall. Session chair: Lance Bosart
- Kristen Corbosiero - Analysis of ensemble variability in secondary eyewall formation
- Patrick Duran - The Upper-Tropospheric Structure of Tropical Cyclones
- Kun Gao - How do boundary layer roll vortices affect the hurricane?
- Chia-Ying Lee - Statistical Modeling of Tropical Cyclone Intensity Climatology
12:30pm - 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm: Workshop concludes