Information Theory, Angular Momentum and Intense Geophysical Vortices

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-12:15

Andrew Majda (New York University)

On the Distribution of Subsidence in the Hurricane Eye

Afternoon Session

12:15-14:00

Lunch (on your own)

14:00-14:50

Wayne Schubert (Colorado State University)

Rotating radiative-convective equilibria at low resolution in large domains

15:00-15:50

Isaac Held (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA))

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16:00-16:30

Coffee Break at LaKretz

16:30-18:00

Kerry Emanuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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18:0-19:00

Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-08:30

Continental Breakfast

08:30-09:20

Kristen Corbosiero (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

The Inner Core Structure and Intensity Change of Hurricane Elena (1985)

Fundamental aspects of tropical-cyclone dynamics. PART II: Buoyancy, size, and the boundary layer

09:30-10:00

Break

10:00-10:50

Roger Smith (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Generalized Quasi-geostrophy for Spatially Anisotropic Rotationally Constrained Flows: Non-Hydrostatic Flows

11:00-11:50

(Keith Julien) (University of Colorado Boulder)

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

14:30-15:20

Kerry Emanuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The Hurricane Embryo

Fundamental Aspects of Tropical Cyclone Dynamics. Part III: The Hurricane Engine's Turbobooster, or More Power to Hurricanes and Typhoons.

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-16:50

Michael Montgomery (Naval Postgraduate School)

The Emergence of Large Scale Coherent Structure under Random Small Scale Bombardments and Convection at Large Prandtl Number

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-08:30

Continental Breakfast

08:30-09:20

Xiaoming Wang (Florida State University)

Multi-scale analyses for intense atmospheric vortices

09:30-10:00

Break

10:00-10:50

Rupert Klein (Freie Universität Berlin)

Hybrid couplings of small-scale systems to large-scale dynamics

11:00-11:50

Markos Katsoulakis (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Modeling of Moist Convection

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

14:30-15:20

Wojciech Grabowski (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

A new Multi-scale model of the Madden-Julian oscillation

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-16:50

Joseph Biello (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))

Quantifying Uncertainty using Ensemble Methods: Coherent vortex predictability

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-08:30

Continental Breakfast

08:30-09:20

Joseph Tribbia (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

Mid-latitude statistical predictability of the atmosphere. Variability and the potential impact of tropical convection

09:30-10:00

Break

10:00-10:50

Richard Kleeman (New York University)

Putting a Vortex in its Place

11:00-11:50

Chris Snyder (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

Using Observations to Improve Hurricane Initialization

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:30

Lunch (on your own)

14:30-15:20

Xiaolei Zhou (Florida State University)

Offline test criteria for filtering complex dynamical system

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-16:50

John Harlim (North Carolina State University)

Friday, February 16, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-08:30

Continental Breakfast

08:30-09:20

Bjorn Engquist (University of Texas at Austin)

Title not available

Multi-Scale Models for the Tropics: A Systematic Route for Improving Theory, Computational, and Predictive Strategies

09:30-10:00

Break

10:00-10:50

Andrew Majda (New York University)

What Can We Learn From Super-Parameterization?

11:00-11:50

David Randall (Colorado State University)