Workshop - Monsoons: Past, Present and Future                  

Time

Event

Speaker

8:15 - 8:45

Coffee and Refreshments

8:45 - 9:00

Linde Center Welcome

Paul Wennberg, Simona Bordoni

9:00 - 9:45

A Review of Energetic and Dynamic Theories of Monsoons

William Boos

9:45 - 10:30

The Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and its Possible Effects on Evolving Asian Climate Over the Past 15 Million Years

Peter Molnar

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:45

Paleoclimate Perspectives on the Afro-Asian Monsoon During the Late Quaternary

Jessica Tierney

11:45 - 12:30

Anthropogenic Changes to Tropical and Subtropical Precipitation and Circulation

David Neelin

12:30

Short Course Ends

12:30 - 1:00

Walk to Keck Center / Registration

1:00 - 2:00

Lunch (provided for meeting attendees)

2:00 - 3:00

Introductions, Meeting Overview, Plenary Discussion

Michele Judd, Simona Bordoni, Tim Merlis

3:00 - 3:25

Tracing Tropical Precipitation Changes in Past Climates: from Individual Lake Basins to the Zonal Mean

David McGee

3:25 - 3:50

Orbital to Millennial Scale Variability in the Southeast Asian Monsoon Since the Last Glacial Period

Kathleen Johnson

3:50 - 4:10

Coffee and Refreshments

4:10 - 4:35

Future Changes in the Annual Cycle of Monsoons and the ITCZ

Michela Biasutti

4:35 - 5:00

Robust Patterns and Uncertainties of Tropical Rainfall and Circulation Projections

Shang-Ping Xie

5:00 - 5:30

Plenary Discussion: Key Open Science Questions at the Paleo/Dynamic Interface

5:30

Walk to the Athenaeum for a 6:00 PM dinner

Time

Event

Speaker

8:15 - 8:45

Coffee and Refreshments

8:45 - 9:00

Logistics, Goals for the Day

Michele Judd, Simona Bordoni, Tim Merlis

9:00 - 9:25

Neogene Monsoons: Leaf Wax Insights into Precipitation and Vegetation Change

Sarah Feakins

9:25 - 9:50

High and Low-Latitude Influences on Deglacial Shifts of the Atlantic ITCZ

Peter deMenocal

9:50 - 10:15

The Record of Precipitation Variability in the Western Pacific Warm Pool over Glacial Cycles as Measure in Stalagmites from Borneo

Jess Adkins

10:15 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 11:10

Spatiotemporal Evolution of the African Monsoon

Jessica Tierney

11:10 - 11:35

Glacier Fluctuations in the Monsoonal Himalaya During the Pre-Industrial Holocene: Identifying Roles for the Asian Monsoon and Tropical Atmospheric Temperature in Himalayan Mass Balance

Aaron Putnam

11:35 - 12:00

Role of Seasonal Transitions and Westerly Jets in the East Asian Paleoclimate

John Chiang

12:00 - 12:30

Plenary Discussion: Glacial/Interglacial vs. Precession

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch  (Atheneaum)

2:00 - 2:25

Tropical Circulation Changes Across Forcing Agents

Tim Merlis

2:25 - 2:50

Modeling Aerosol Effects on Monsoon Circulation and Precipitation: from Cloud Resolving to Global Simulations

Ruby Leung

2:50 - 3:15

Global Precipitation Changes Shaped by Natural and Anthropogenic Forcing

Mark Cane

3:15 - 3:40

AMOC Changes, Past, Present and Future, with Comments on Monsoon Responses

Ka Kit Tung

4:00 - 6:00

Break & Poster Session

6:30

Optional No-Host Dinner in Pasadena

Time

Event

Speaker

8:15 - 8:45

Coffee and Refreshments

8:45 -9:00

Logistics, Goals for the Day

Michele Judd, Simona Bordoni, Tim Merlis

9:00 - 9:25

The Impact of Vertical Motion Structure on the Amplification of Tropical Convection

Larissa Back

9:25 - 9:50

How far can the ITCZ go? Lessons from Earth, Titan and everything in-between

Jonathan Mitchell

9:50 - 10:15

Hadley Circulation, Cloud Feedback and Climate Sensitivity

Hui Su

10:15 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 11:10

Isentropic Flows and Monsoonal Circulations

Olivier Pauluis

11:10 - 11:35

Dynamics and Thermodynamic Controls on the Hadley Circulation

Martin Singh

11:35 - 12:30

Breakout Groups: Frontiers in Dynamics, Simulation, Observations

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch at Keck Center

2:00 - 2:45

Report out from breakout groups

2:45 - 3:10

Modeling Interactions Between the Quasi-Geostrophic Vertical Motion and Convection in a Single Column

Ji Nie

3:10 - 3:35

Towards a New Understanding of Monsoon Depressions

Bill Boos

3:35 - 4:00

Walk to Sharp Lecture Hall

4:00 - 5:00

Climate and Conflict (ESE Lecture)

Mark Cane

5:15 - 6:00

ESE Reception

6:30

Dinner at the Athenaeum

Time

Event

Speaker

8:15 - 8:45

Coffee and Refreshments

8:45 - 9:00

Logistics, Goals for the Day

Michele Judd, Simona Bordoni, Tim Merlis

9:00 - 9:25

Dynamical and Radiative Influences on the Sahell Rainfall Response to Uniform Ocean Warming

Spencer Hill

9:25 - 9:50

Radiative-Convective Equilibrium over Islands

Tim Cronin

9:50 - 10:15

Monsoons on Idealized Continents

Simona Bordoni

10:15 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 11:10

And Now for Something Completely Different: Causes of the California Drought with an Aside on the Paleo-North American Monsoon

Richard Seager

11:10 - 12:30

Discussion: Where Do We Go from Here? Collaborations needed to make progress

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch on your own

2:00 - 2:25

The Role of Land-Sea Contrast in the Circulation Response to Solar Insolation and Global Warming

Tiffany Shaw 

2:25 - 2:50

The Role of Soil Moisture in the West African Monsoon

Ben Lintner 

2:50 - 3:15

Will Forests Grow Back After Deforestation?

Jung-Eun Lee

3:15 - 3:40

Status on Satellite Remote Sensing of Water Vapor Isotopologues

Christian Frankenberg 

3:40 - 4:10

Break

4:10 - 5:30

Discussion: Isotope Measurements and Isotope Enabled Modeling

6:00

Dinner

Time

Event

Speaker

8:15 - 8:45

Coffee and Refreshments

8:45 - 9:00

Logistics, Goals for the Day

Michele Judd, Simona Bordoni, Tim Merlis

9:00 - 10:30

Summarize Main Workshop Outcomes

All

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00

Outline Final Report/Paper and Determine Writing Assignments

All

12:00 - 12:30

Discussion: Advocacy Plan for Ideas Generated in this Workshop

12:30 - 2:00

End of Formal Workshop - Lunch in Institute

2:00 - 4:00

Optional Writing Session

4:00

Close of Workshop