A12F:
Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Modeling, and Predictability II

Session ID#: 5235

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States and Scott A Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Primary Convener:  Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States
Co-conveners:  Scott A Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Patrick Harr, Naval Postgraduate School, Pacific Grove, United States and Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

3315 Data assimilation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3372 Tropical cyclones [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A12F-01
Tropical Cyclones: Forecasting Advances, Science Opportunities and Operational Challenges (Invited) (3526)
Lance F Bosart, University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, United States
A33K-3346
Impacts of 4D-VAR Assimilation of Airborne Doppler Radar Observations on Numerical Simulations of the Genesis of Typhoon Nuri (2008) (27130)
Zhan Li, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
A12F-03
Suppression of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity by Extratropical Rossby Wave Breaking (13083)
Gan Zhang and Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States
A12F-04
Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Spinup Time to the Initial Entropy Deficit (22654)
Brian Tang1, Kristen L Corbosiero1, Rosimar Rios-Berrios2, Joshua James Alland1 and Jeremy Berman1, (1)University at Albany, Albany, NY, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
A12F-05
Dynamics of Resolved Turbulence in Large Eddy Simulations of Hurricanes (31417)
George H Bryan1, Richard Rotunno1 and Daniel P Stern2, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
A12F-06
The Structure and Dynamics of Coherent Vortices in the Eyewall Boundary Layer of Tropical Cyclones (31112)
Daniel P Stern, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and George H Bryan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO, United States
A12F-07
Sensitivity of hurricane intensity and structure to horizontal diffusion in idealized HWRF simulations (28143)
Jun Zhang, NOAA/AOML, Key Biscayne, FL, United States and Frank Marks, NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Key Biscayne, FL, United States
A12F-08
Boundary Layer Dynamical Structure During Secondary Eyewall Formation (16627)
Sergio Federico Abarca, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Michael t Montgomery, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States and James C McWilliams, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
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