Draft schedule below, subject to change
The symposium livestream (registration not required) can be viewed here. All oral presentations are in Kirsch Auditorium (Room 32-123), First Floor, Stata Center, Building 32, MIT.
Day 1: Tuesday 21 June
| 9:00-9:15 AM | Welcome Remarks | |
| 9:15-9:45 AM | Adam Sobel (Columbia University) | A short history of tropical meteorology |
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| Session 1 | TC Dynamics | Chair: Chris Davis (NCAR) |
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| 9:45-10:05 AM | Rich Rotunno (NCAR) | Supergradient Winds in Simulated Tropical Cyclones |
| 10:05-10:25 AM | Brian Tang (University at Albany) | Tropical Cyclone Ventilation |
| 10:25-10:45 AM | Dan Chavas (Purdue University) | Tropical cyclone size on the rotating sphere |
| 10:45-11:05 AM | Chun-Chieh Wu (National Taiwan University) | Secondary Eyewall Formation |
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| 11:05-11:35 AM | Break | |
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| Session 2 | TC Forecasting and Risk | Chair: Adam Sobel (Columbia University) |
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| 11:35-11:55 AM | Frank Marks (NOAA/AOML Hurricane Research Division) | Future Directions for Hurricane Research and HFIP |
| 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM | Rebecca Morss (NCAR) | Integrating atmospheric and social sciences to understand the dynamic weather prediction and communication system |
| 12:15-12:35 PM | Ning Lin (Princeton University) | Physics-based Hurricane Risk Analysis |
| 12:35-12:55 PM | Dail Rowe (Renaissance Re Risk Sciences) | Reinsurance and climate change: Living on the back of the envelope |
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| 12:55-2:20 PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
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| Session 3 | TCs and Climate Change | Chair: Allison Wing (Florida State University) |
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| 2:20-2:40 PM | Jim Kossin (The Climate Service) | Observed Tropical Cyclone Trends |
| 2:40-3:00 PM | Gabe Vecchi (Princeton University) | Tropical cyclones in global models: Making sense of the past and future |
| 3:00-3:20 PM | Suzana Camargo (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) | Tropical cyclone environmental fields in CMIP6 models: Biases, projections and ENSO diversity influence |
| 3:20-3:40 PM | Rob Korty (Texas A & M) | Tropical Cyclones in Past Climates |
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| 3:40-4:00 PM | Break | |
| Session | Keynote Lecture | Chair: Dan Rothman (MIT) |
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| 4:00-5:00 PM | Kerry Emanuel (MIT) | The enduring enigma of tropical cyclone formation |
| 5:15-6:15 PM | Public Reception | 54-915, 9th Floor, Green Building, MIT |
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| 6:30-9:00 PM | Dinner (registration required, spaces limited) | Chair: Chris Forest (The Pennsylvania State University) |
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| | Morss Hall, First Floor, Walker Memorial, Building 50 |
Day 2: Wednesday 22 June
| Session 4 | Convective Organization | Chair: Chris Bretherton (Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence (AI2)) |
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| 9:00-9:30 AM | Allison Wing (Florida State University) | Convective self-aggregation and the role of radiative feedbacks |
| 9:30-9:50 AM | Marat Khairoutdinov (Stony Brook University) | Convective aggregation in near-global and global storm-resolving simulations |
| 9:50-10:10 AM | Loiuse Nuijens (Delft University of Technology) | Organization of shallow convection and its impact on winds |
| 10:10-10:30 AM | Kathleen Schiro (University of Virginia) | Thermodynamic controls on deep convection and convective organization in the tropics |
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| 10:30-11:00 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Poster Session | Stata Center, Charles Vest Student Street corridor |
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| 12:30-2:00 PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
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| Session 5 | Tropical and Severe Convection | Chair: William Boos (UC Berkeley) |
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| 2:00-2:20 PM | Zeljka Fuchs-Stone (NMT) | The many splendid aspects of convection |
| 2:20-2:40 PM | Tim Cronin (MIT) | A simple conceptual model for enhancement of rainfall over flat tropical islands |
| 2:40-3:00 PM | Morgan O'Neill (Stanford University) | Water can get there from here: stratospheric hydration by convective hydraulic jumps |
| 3:00-3:20 PM | Howie Bluestein (University of Oklahoma) | Mobile radar and visual observations of extreme, mesoscale and convective-scale weather: Supercell tornadoes and heavy snowbands |
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| 3:20-3:50 PM | Break | |
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| Session 6 | Modeling and Tropical Variability | Chair: Tim Cronin (MIT) |
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| 3:50-4:10 PM | William Boos (UC Berkeley) | Mechanical forcing of the North American monsoon |
| 4:10-4:30 PM | Angel Adames-Corraliza (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | The importance of water vapor in tropical motions: moisture modes and moisture-vortex instability |
| 4:30-4:50 PM | Rosimar Rios-Berrios (NCAR) | Evidence of a westward-propagating moisture mode in convection-permitting aquaplanet simulations |
| 4:50-5:10 PM | Chris Bretherton (Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence (AI2)) | Improving climate models using corrective machine learning |
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| 5:10-5:30 PM | Closing, Symposium concludes | |
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