Abstracts for EPIC2001 Workshop Posters

Poster Session on East Pacific ITCZ

  1. Convective Variability Across the East Pacific: A Comparison of Precipitation Structure in the TEPPS and EPIC Domains
    by: Robert Cifelli, Steve Nesbitt, Steven Rutledge, and Walt Petersen
  2. EPIC and Other Recent Field Campaign Radar Data Collected in the Context of the TRMM PR Climatology
    by: Stephen W. Nesbitt, Robert Cifelli, and Steven A. Rutledge
  3. Convective Characteristics over the East Pacific and Southwest Amazon Regions: A Radar Prespective
    by: Luis Gustavo Paiva Pereira and Steven A. Rutledge
  4. Role of the ITCZ in Air-Sea Interaction
    by: Chidong Zhang, Michael McGauley, and Nick Bond
  5. EPIC 2001 Lidar "Calibrations" with In Situ Measurements
    by: D. Baumgardner, G.B. Raga, and J.C. Jimenez
  6. Role of PBL-top Zonal Winds in East Pacific ITCZ Dynamics
    by: David J. Raymond, Graciela Raga, Christopher S. Bretherton, John Molinari, and Simon deSzoeke
  7. Spatial Variability of Entropy in the Boundary Layer
    by: C. Lopez Carrillo and David J. Raymond
  8. Atmospheric Kelvin waves and Convective Variability over the EPIC Study Region
    by: George N. Kiladis, and Katherine H. Straub
  9. Synoptic Disturbances in the East Pacific ITCZ and Their Effects on the Boundary Layer and Upper-Ocean Mixed Layer
    by: Yolande L. Serra, Meghan F. Cronin, and Michael J. McPhaden
  10. Acoustic Rain Gauge Measurements in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean
    by: Jeffrey A Nystuen and Barry Ma
  11. On the Vertical Structure of the Upper Tropical Troposphere observed during EPIC by Cloud Radar and Soundings
    by: P. Zuidema
  12. Predicting the Onset of the North American Monsoon and Progress Toward a Mechanistic Understanding
    by: David L. Mitchell, Beth Hall, Miguel Lavíin, Dorothea Ivanova, and Kelly Redmond
  13. Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height over the Eastern Pacific: Data Analysis and Model Evaluation
    by: Xubin Zeng, C. Fairall, N.A. Bond, and D.H. Lenschow
  14. Satellite observations and numerical simulation of eastern Pacific climate
    by: Shang-Ping Xie, Haiming Xu, Yuqing Wang, and Justin Small
  15. The Amplification of East Pacific Intraseasonal Oscillation Convection and Wind Anomalies during June-November
    by: Eric D. Maloney, and Steven K. Esbensen
  16. Maximum Covariance Analysis of the Summertime MJO in the Eastern Pacific
    by: Soline Bielli, Dennis L. Hartmann, David J. Lorenz

Poster Session on Cold Tongue and Stratus Region

  1. Observations of Mean and Turbulent Structure at the top of the ABL over the Cold Tongue
    by: Nicholas Bond, Christopher Bretherton, Simon deSzoeke, Michael McGauley, and Chidong Zhang
  2. Observations of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow Across the North Side of the Cold Tongue in the Eastern Pacific
    by: C.A. Paulson, H. Wijesekera, and W.S. Pegau
  3. WRF-Model 2-D Simulations of the EPIC2001 PBL Cross-Section
    by: Nicolai Thum, Steve Esbensen, Dean Vickers, and Jim McCaa
  4. Numerical Simulation of boundary Layer Structure and Cross-equatorial Flow in the Eastern Pacific
    by: Justin Small
  5. Thermodynamic evolution of the cross-equatorial ABL: comparing models and EPIC 2001 observations
    by: Simon deSzoeke
  6. Variations in the Daily Cycle of Winds Over the Galápagos
    by: Leslie M. Hartten and Pauline A. Datulayta
  7. Barometric Pressure Variations Associated With Eastern Pacific Tropical Instability Waves
    by: Meghan F. Cronin, Shang-Ping Xie, and Hiroshi Hashizume
  8. Drizzle in the SE Pacific straocumulus region
    by: Kimberly Comstock, Robert Wood, Sandra Yuter, and Christopher Bretherton
  9. Mesoscale Variability of Stratocumulus Clouds and Drizzle
    by: Sandra Yuter, Kim Comstock, Rob Wood, and Chris Bretherton
  10. A continental gravity wave influence on remote marine SE Pacific cloud
    by: Robert Wood, Chris Bretherton, Peter Caldwell, and Martin Kohler
  11. Cloud Forcing in the Tropical Eastern Pacific
    by: Meghan F. Cronin, Nicholas Bond, Chris Fairall, and Robert A. Weller
  12. Mixed Layer Budget Analysis of Straocumulus Dynamics in EPIC
    by: Peter Caldwell, Chris Bretherton, and Robert Wood
  13. Intraseasonal Oscillation of the Stratocumulus Cloud Deck over the Southeast Pacific
    by: Haiming Xu, Shang-Ping Xie, and Yuqing Wang
  14. On the vertical profile of stratus liquid water flux using a millimeter cloud radar
    by: Shelby Frisch and Paquita Zuidema
  15. Comparison of In Situ, Surface, and Satellite Cloud Measurements over the Eastern Pacific
    by: J. Kirk Ayers, Mandana M. Khaiyer, Patrick Minnis, Louis Nguyen, Tarah Sharon, Bruce Albrecht, Chris Fairall, Taneil Uttal, and Robert Wood
  16. EPIC-2001: ITCZ and Stratus Regime Climatologies in the PACS Context
    by: Jeffrey Hare, Chris Fairall, Taneil Uttal, and Bob Weller
  17. Diurnal Variations of Solar Optical and Microphysical properties of Stratocumulus Clouds from EPIC2001 - Leg II
    by: C. W. Fairall, J. E. Hare, and T. Uttal
  18. Evolution of Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Structure Across the Cold Tongue ITCZ Complex
    by: Hollis Pyatt, Bruce Albrecht, Chris Fairall, Nick Bond, and Pat Minnis
  19. A Regional Atmospheric Model Study of Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific off South America and Their Large-Scale Forcing
    by: Yuqing Wang, Shang-Ping Xie, Haiming Xu, and Bin Wang
  20. Lidar Observations of the Marine Boundary Layer Wind Structure and Stratus Clouds during the EPIC 2001 Cruise
    by: Janet Intrieri, Alan Brewer, Scott Sandberg, Raul Alvarez, Brandi McCarty, Martin Yapur, and Paquita Zuidema
  21. Moored upper ocean-atmosphere observations from under the stratus cloud deck
    by: K. Colbo and R.Weller
  22. Diurnal Variations in Cloud Properties over the Eastern Pacific From GOES-8 During EPIC 2001
    by: Patrick Minnis, Louis Nguyen, and J. Kirk Ayers

Poster Session on East Pacific Oceanography

  1. Mixed-layer microstructure observations within the ITCZ
    by: John Mickett and Mike Gregg
  2. Finescale Upper Ocean Structure Along 95W Between 10N and 1S During EPIC
    by: Daniel L. Rudnick, Hemantha W Wijesekera, and Clayton A Paulson
  3. Heat and Freshwater Budgets in the Eastern Pacific Warm Pool
    by: Hemantha Wijesekera, Daniel Rudnick, Clayton Paulson, Stephen Pierce, and Scott Pegau
  4. Analysis of Temperature and Salinity Variability in the Upper Ocean Caused by Rainfall in the ITCZ
    by: H. Wijesekera, C. A. Paulson, W.S. Pegau, and D. Rudnick
  5. Thermocline Variability in the Eastern Pacific Warm Pool
    by: Rachel H. Wade, and Meghan F. Cronin
  6. Airborne Expendable Current, Temperature and Salinity Profiling in EPIC
    by: L. Shay, T. Cook, S. D. Jacob, C. Zhang, and M. McGauley
  7. Variability of Ocean Radiant Heating in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
    by: Carter Ohlmann, David Siegel, Scott Doney, and Chuck McClain
  8. Ocean Radiant Heating in Climate Models
    by: Carter Ohlmann
  9. Seasonal to Interannual Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Eastern Pacific Warm Pool
    by: A. Leonardi, R. Murtugudde, J. Beauchamp, and A.J. Busalacchi
  10. Processes Determining Rapid Reestablishment of the Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue/ITCZ Complex
    by: Bin Wang and Xiouhua Fu
  11. The Evolution of Upper Ocean Thermal Structure at 10°N, 125°W during 1997-98
    by: J. Tom Farrar and Robert A. Weller