Information and Schedule
The 6th Northeast Tropical Workshop will be held May 29-31, 2013 at Carey Conference Center in Rensselaerville, NY.
Please make sure to read the Workshop Information document, which contains pertinent information for all workshop attendees, including who to contact regarding dietary restrictions. The workshop program is shown below, and can also be downloaded as a pdf via the link in the sidebar. Also in the sidebar, an alternate schedule can be found, in the event the weather is good and we switch from an afternoon to an evening session. Follow the "Poster Sessions" link in the sidebar to see which posters will be presented in the Wednesday evening (Poster Session A) and Thursday evening (Poster Session B) sessions.
Tuesday, May 28th
Afternoon: Check-in
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Reception - Carriage House
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Dinner - Carriage House. Dessert and coffee at Stonecrop back terrace
Wednesday, May 29th
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM: Breakfast - Carriage House
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Session 1: Monsoons and Madden-Julian Oscillation, Chair: Olivier Pauluis - Guggenheim Auditorium
Mechanisms of growth and propagation of monsoon synoptic vortices - Bill Boos
Onset of East Asian subtropical summer monsoon and the impact of MJO - Fuqing Zhang
The Madden-Julian Oscillation and global atmospheric predictability - Kyle MacRitchie
Composite analysis of zonally narrow components of the MJO - Paul Roundy
Radiative feedbacks and the MJO - Adam Sobel
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Discussion of Monsoons and MJO - Guggenheim Auditorium
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch - Carriage House
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM: Session 2: Convection, Chair: Paul Roundy - Guggenheim Auditorium
Island precipitation enhancement and the diurnal cycle in radiative-convective equilibrium - Tim Cronin
Physical mechanisms controlling self-organization of convection in idealized numerical modeling simulations - Allison Wing
Clarifying the amount effect - Mary Moore
Probing responses of moist convection to large-scale temperature and moisture perturbations using a Lagrangian particle dispersian model - Yang Tian
The role of in-cloud heterogeneity in nonlinear chemistry - Jie Nie
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM: Break
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM: Session 3: General Circulation, Chair: Lance Bosart - Guggenheim Auditorium
Isentropic analysis applied to radiative-convective equilibrium circulation - Olivier Pauluis
Isentropic analysis aplied to the Walker circulation -Joanna Slawinska
An investigation of the connections between convection, clouds, and climate in a Global Climate Model - Ming Zhao
The effect of greenhouse-gas-induced changes in SST on the seasonality of tropical precipitation - John Dwyer
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM: Break
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM: Discussion of Convection and General Circulation - Guggenheim Auditorium
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Reception and Poster Session A - Guggenheim Master Seminar Room
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Dinner - Carriage House
Thursday, May 30th
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM: Breakfast - Carriage House
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Session 4: Tropical Cyclones and Climate, Chair: John Molinari - Guggenheim Auditorium
CMIP5-based projections of tropical cyclone activity - Kerry Emanuel
Global and regional aspects of tropical cyclone activity in the CMIP5 models - Suzana Camargo
Environmental control of tropical cyclones in global climate models: a ventilation perspective - Brian Tang
Dynamical downscaling of tropical cyclone activity: an update on the use of the GFDL hurricane model in multiple basins - Tom Knutson
The sensitivity of hurricane frequency to ITCZ changes and radiatively forced waring in aquaplanet simulations - Tim Merlis
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Discussion of Tropical Cyclones and Climate - Guggenheim Auditorium
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch - Carriage House
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM: Session 5: Tropical Cyclogenesis, Chair, Kerry Emanuel - Guggenheim Auditorium
Upper-level precursors associated with subtropical cyclone formation in the North Atlantic - Alicia Bentley
A climatology of Central American gyres - Philippe Papin
Evolution of African Easterly Waves from Africa to cyclogenesis - Alan Brammer
A climatological study of pouch formation - Ali Asaadi
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Break
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM: Session 6: Tropical Cyclone Structure, Chair: Tom Knutson - Guggenheim Auditorium
Characteristics of tropical cyclones in high-resolution models of the present climate - Daniel Shaevitz
Isentropical analysis applied to hurricane circulation - Aga Mrowiec
Equilibrium tropical cyclone size in radiative-convective equilibrium - Dan Chavas
The tropical cyclone diurnal cycle - Jason Dunion
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM: Break
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM: Discussion of Tropical Cyclogenesis and Tropical Cyclone Structure - Guggenheim Auditorium
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Reception and Poster Session B - Guggenheim Master Seminar Room
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Dinner - Carriage House
Friday, May 31st
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM: Breakfast - Carriage House
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM: Session 7: Tropical Cyclone - Environmental Influences, Chair: Kristen Corbosiero - Guggenheim Auditorium
Tropical cyclones' influence on the ocean: from event scale process to climate scale consequences - Emmanuel Vincent
Impacts of western North Pacific tropical cyclones on the atmospheric moisture content of their large-scale environment - Ben Schenkel
The Extreme Precipitation Index (EPI) and its applications to extratropical transition - John Gyakum
Intensification of an asymmetric, sheared tropical cyclone in a WRF simulation - Leon Nguyen
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM: Break
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM: Session 8: Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Predictability, Chair: Brian Tang - Guggenheim Auditorium
On the origin and impact of asymmetric polygonal eyewall and mesovortices in the rapid intensification of Hurricane Wilma (2005) - Konstantinos Menelaou
Linking lightning activity to intensity changes in tropical cyclones: a case study of Hurricane Earl (2010) - Stephanie Stevenson
Dynamical Analysis of the PSU WRF/EnKF real-time ensemble simulation of Hurricane Sandy (2012) - Erin Munsell
Effects of vertical wind shear on the predictability of tropical cyclones - Dandan Tao
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Discussion on Tropical Cyclone - Environmental Influences and Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Predicability - Guggenheim Auditorium
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch - Carriage House
1:30 PM: Workshop concludes