| Subject: | February meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society |
| From: | Rodney Blackall |
| Posting date: | 12-01-2008 |
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The subject of the next National meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society
will be
EXTRATROPICAL WEATHER SYSTEMS: FROM THE DYNAMICS OF INDIVIDUAL
STORMS TO STORMTRACK BEHAVIOUR
and will be held on
WEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY 2008
at the Palmer lecture theatre, Shinfield Road entrance, University of
Reading. Maps are available from the Royal Meteorological Society or from
its web site: www.rmets.org Buses 9, 12 & 20 run between The Station,
Market Place and Shinfield Road entrance to the University (return from the
Whiteknights main entrance).
Synoptic-scale cyclones are central to the weather and climate of the
extratropics. Although the skill of numerical weather forecasts has
increased markedly since the 1980s, it is not clear that the theoretical
understanding of weather systems has advanced at such a surroundings that
are not well understood. This meeting begins with pace. There are many
aspects of storms and their effects on their convection embedded within them
and the potential for prediction on investigating the manner in which
weather systems organise the the convective scale. We then focus on the
fundamental mechanisms behind the development of a weather system itself and
its effects on the background state upon which it evolves. Finally, the
influences of tropical and extratropical cyclones on mid-latitude
predictability are explored, including links between wave-breaking behaviour
and the dominant "modes" of variability on timescales longer than that of
individual systems.
2.00 Introduction
Chairman: Prof Geraint Vaughan, President Royal Meteorological Society
Meeting Organiser: Dr John Methven, Meteorology, University of Reading
2.10 Organisation of convection larger scale dynamics
Dr Nigel Roberts, Met Office; Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology
2.40 The October 1987 storm as depicted in a balanced pv model
Dr Paul Berrisford, National Centre for Atmospheric Science and ECMWF
3.10 The turbulent equilibration of a baroclinic jet
Dr Gavin Esler, Mathematics, University College London
3.40 TEA
4.10 The impact of tropical cyclones on the downstream midlatitiude
predictability
Dr Sarah Jones, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research,
Universitaet Karlsruhe / Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe
4.40 From cyclone life-cycles to wave-breaking theories of the North
Atlantic oscillation
Dr Tim Woollings, Meteorology, University of Reading
5.10 Poster session
Non-members are welcome to attend this meeting, for which registration is
not required.
--
Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j
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