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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States and Scott A Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
Co-conveners:  Scott A Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Patrick Harr, Naval Postgraduate School, Pacific Grove, CA, United States and Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Tropical Cyclones: Forecasting Advances, Science Opportunities and Operational Challenges
Lance F Bosart, SUNY Albany, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States
10:35 AM
 
Interaction Between Typhoon Megi (2010) and a Low Frequency Monsoon Gyre
Melinda Peng, Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States, Mingyu Bi, Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China and Tim Li, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
10:50 AM
 
Suppression of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity by Extratropical Rossby Wave Breaking
Gan Zhang and Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
11:05 AM
 
Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Spinup Time to the Initial Entropy Deficit
Brian Tang, Kristen L Corbosiero, Rosimar Rios-Berrios, Joshua Alland and Jeremy Berman, University at Albany, Albany, NY, United States
11:20 AM
 
Dynamics of Resolved Turbulence in Large Eddy Simulations of Hurricanes
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, CO, United States
11:35 AM
 
The Structure and Dynamics of Coherent Vortices in the Eyewall Boundary Layer of Tropical Cyclones
Daniel P Stern, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and George H Bryan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO, United States
11:50 AM
 
Sensitivity of hurricane intensity and structure to horizontal diffusion in idealized HWRF simulations
Jun Zhang and Frank Marks, NOAA/AOML, Key Biscayne, FL, United States
12:05 PM
 
Boundary Layer Dynamical Structure During Secondary Eyewall Formation
Sergio Federico Abarca1, Michael t Montgomery2 and James C McWilliams1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
 
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